of which at all agree with those mentioned by Pytheas.  On the other hand, we cannot suppose that his course was south-west, and not at all to the north, which must have been the case, if the country at which he arrived in sailing from the northern extremity of Britain, was Jutland.  The object must, therefore, be to find out a country the productions of which correspond with those mentioned by Pytheas; for, with regard to those, he could not be mistaken:  and a country certainly not the least to the south of the northern part of Britain.  As it is impossible that he could have reached the pole, what he states respecting the day and night being each six months long must be rejected; and his other account of the length of the day, deduced from his own observation of the sun, at the time of the summer solstice, touching the northern point of the horizon, must be received.  If we suppose that this was the limit of the sun’s course in that direction (which, from his statement, must be inferred), this will give us a length of day of about twenty hours, corresponding to about sixty-two degrees of north latitude.  The next point to be ascertained is the latitude of his departure from the coast of Britain.  There seems no good reason to believe, what all the hypothesis we have examined assume, that Pytheas sailed along the whole of the east coast of Britain:  on the other hand, it seems more likely, that having passed over from the coast of France to the coast of Britain, he traced the latter to its most eastern point, that is, the coast of Norfolk near Yarmouth; from which place, the coast taking a sudden and great bend to the west, it is probable that Pytheas, whose object evidently was to sail as far north as he could, would leave the coast and stretch out into the open sea.  Sailing on a north course, or rather with a little inclination to the east of the north, would bring him to the entrance of the Baltic.  We have already conceived it probable that the country he describes lay in the latitude of about 62 deg., and six days’ sail from the coast of Norfolk would bring him nearly into this latitude, supposing he entered the Baltic.  The next point relates to the productions of the country:  millet, wheat, and honey, are much more the characteristic productions of the countries lying on the Gulf of Finland, than they are of Jutland; and Pytheas’ account of the climate also agrees better with the climate of this part of the Baltic, than with that of Jutland.

That Pythias visited the Baltic, though perhaps the Thule he mentions did not lie in this sea, is evident from the following extract from his journal, given by Pliny:—­“On the shores of a certain bay called Mentonomon, live a people called Guttoni:  and at the distance of a day’s voyage from them, is the island Abalus (called by Timaeus, Baltea).  Upon this the waves threw the amber, which is a coagulated matter cast up by the sea:  they use it for firing, instead of wood, and also sell it to the neighbouring