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Apparently the Baltic proper is here called the sea of Sillende, and may have been named from the isle of Zeeland. Yet in this passage it seems to refer to the gulf of Bothnia, as running far up into the country. See Sect. iii. p. 14, in which Forster endeavours to fix this place at Aarhuus in Jutland. Remarks by J. M. Forster, respecting the situation of Sciringes-heal and Haethum .
When he sailed to this place from Sciringes-heal, Dene, or Denmark, was on his left, and on his right was a wide sea for three days; as were also on his right, two days before he came to Haethum, Gotland, Sillende, and many other islands, which were inhabited by the Angles before they came to Britain; and during these two days, the islands belonging to Denmark were on his left hand.
As he proceeds again to the northward, a great sea to the south of Sciringes-heal runs up into this land, and that sea is so wide, that a person cannot see across it. Gotland is opposite on the other side, or right-hand; and afterwards the sea of Sillende lies many miles up in that country.
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