[1] Anglo-Saxon Version From Orosius, By AElfred The Great, With An English Translation, By Daines Barrington, 8vo.

London, 1773.

Discoveries in the North, 54.

[2] This word is always employed by Alfred to denote the ocean, while smaller portions are uniformly called sae in the singular, saes in the plural. - Barr

[3] Called Wenadel sea in the Anglo-Saxon original; probably because it had been crossed by the Vandals or Wends, in going from Spain to the conquest of Africa. - E.

[4] In the translation by Barrington, this sentence is quite unintelligible. "All to the northward is Asia, and to the southward Europe and Asia are separated by the Tanais; then south of this same river (along the Mediterranean, and west of Alexandria) Europe and Asia join." - E.

[5] Riffing, in the Anglo-Saxon. - E.

[6] Sermondisc in the Anglo-Saxon, Sarmaticus in Orosius. - E.

[7] Rochouasco in Anglo-Saxon, Roxolani in Orosius. - E.

[8] Certainly here put for Ireland. - E.

[9] Taprobana, Serendib, or Ceylon. - E.

[10] By the Red Sea must be here meant that which extends between the peninsula of India and Africa, called the Erithrean Sea in the Periplus of Nearchus. - E.

[11] The Persian gulf is here assumed as a part of the Red Sea. - E.

[12] He is here obviously enumerating the divisions of the latter Persian empire. Orocassia is certainly the Arachosia of the ancients; Asilia and Pasitha may be Assyria and proper Persia. - E.

[13] The Saxon word is beorhta or bright, which I have ventured to translate parched by the sun, as this signification agrees well with the context.

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