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A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY.  1

1. Germany  2 is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia,  3 and Pannonia,  4 by the rivers Rhine and Danube; from Sarmatia and Dacia, by mountains  5 and mutual dread. The rest is surrounded by an ocean, embracing broad promontories  6 and vast insular tracts,  7 in which our military expeditions have lately discovered various nations and kingdoms. The Rhine, issuing from the inaccessible and precipitous summit of the Rhaetic Alps,  8 bends gently to the west, and falls into the Northern Ocean. The Danube, poured from the easy and gently raised ridge of Mount Abnoba,  9 visits several nations in its course, till at length it bursts out  10 by six channels  11 into the Pontic sea; a seventh is lost in marshes.


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