25.
The breadth of this Hercynian forest, which has been referred to
above, is to a quick traveler, a journey of nine days. For it can not be
otherwise computed, nor are they acquainted with the measures of roads. It
begins at the frontiers of the Helvetii,
Nemetes, and Rauraci, and extends in a right line
along the river Danube to the territories of the
Daci and the Anartes; it bends thence to the left
in a different direction from the river, and owing to its extent touches the
confines of many nations; nor is there any person belonging to this part of
Germany who says that
he either has gone to the extremity of that forest, though he had advanced a
journey of sixty days, or has heard in what place it begins. It is certain that
many kinds of wild beast are produced in it which have not been seen in other
parts; of which the following are such as differ principally from other animals,
and appear worthy of being committed to record.
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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