[14] The true Niger, running from the westwards till it loses itself in the
    sands of Wangara, seems here alluded to; and the Bahr el Abiad, or
    Western Nile, is supposed to be its continuation, rising again out of
    the sand.—­E.

[15] This ought certainly to be after, and seems to allude to the
    Bahr el Abiad.—­E.

[16] Literally a great sea.—­Barr.

[17] This is a mistake, as it only takes a wide turn to the west in
    Dongola, around what has been falsely called the Isle of Meroe.  The
    cliffs of the Red Sea seem to imply the mountains of Nubia, and the
    wide sea may be the lake of Dembea.—­E.

[18] A strange attempt to account for the regular overflow of the Nile.—­E.

[19] This account of the boundaries of Old Scythia is extremely vague.  It
    seems to imply an eastern boundary by an imaginary river Bore, that
    the Caspian is the western, the northern ocean on the north, and Mount
    Caucasus on the south.—­E.

[20] In the translation by Barrington, this portion of Scythia is strangely
    said to extend south to the Mediterranean; the interpolation surely of
    some ignorant transcriber, who perhaps changed the Euxine or Caspian
    sea into the Mediterranean.—­E.

[21] Called by mistake, or erroneous transcription, Wendel sea, or
    Mediterranean in the text and translation.—­E.

[22] The Cwen sea is the White sea, or sea of Archangel.  The Kwen or Cwen
    nation, was that now called Finlanders, from whom that sea received
    this ancient appellation.—­Forst.

[23] East Francan in the original.  The eastern Franks dwelt in that part of
    Germany between the Rhine and the Sala, in the north reaching to the
    Ruhre and Cassel, and in the south, almost to the Necker; according to
    Eginhard, inhabiting from Saxony to the Danube.  They were called east
    Franks to distinguish them from that other part of the nation which
    inhabited ancient Gaul, and Franconia continues to preserve their
    name.—­Forst.

[24] Swaepas, or Suevae, who formed part of the Allemanic confederacy, and
    afterwards gave their name of Swabes to an extensive nation, in whose
    bounds modern Swabia is still situated.—­Forst.

[25] The Bavarians, who were the remnant of the Boii or Baeghten, who
    escaped from the exterminating sword of the Suevi.—­Forst.

[26] This may have been the province in which Regens-bergh or Ratisbon is
    still situated.—­Forst.

[27] These were undoubtedly the Bohemians, called afterwards Behemas by our
    royal geographer.  They had their appellation from Boier-heim, or the
    dwelling place of the Boii, who were exterminated by the Suevi. 
    —­Forst.

[28] The Thuringians, at one time so powerful, that their king was able to
    engage in war against the king of the Franks.  Thuringia is still a
    well known district in Germany.—­Forst.