The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. The Danube pours down from the gradual and gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations, to force its way at last through six channels into the Pontus a seventh mouth is lost in marshes. The Rhine springs from a precipitous and inaccessible height of the Rhaetian Alps, bends slightly westward, and mingles with the Northern Ocean. Elsewhere ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islands of unexplored extent, where certain tribes and kings are newly known to us, revealed by war. Germany as a whole is separated from the Galli, the Rhaeti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmatae and Daci. Published by Good Press, 4064066444549 Table of Contents
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