LYTARNIS
LYTARNIS a promontory in Northern Europe, mentioned by Pliny (
6.12. s. 14). His text makes the promontory of Lytarnis, at one and the same time, a portion of the Celtic country and the extremity of the Rhipaean range--the Rhipaean mountains being the
Uralian--“extra eos” (i. e. the Scythians), “ultraque Aquilonis initia Hyperboreos aliqui posuere, pluribus in Europa dictos. Primum inde noscitur promontorium Celticae
Lytarnis, fluvius Carambucis, ubi lassata cum siderum vi Riphaeorum montium deficiunt juga.” In the eyes of the physical geographer, the extremity of the
Uralian chain is either the island of
Nova Zembla or the most northern portion of the district on the west of the sea of
Obi,--the
Obi being the Caramoucis.
In the usual maps, however, the
Dwina is the Carambucis, and
Nanin Noss, on the east of the White Sea, the Lytarmis Prom.
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