ABALUS
ABALUS was said by Pytheas to be an island in the northern ocean, upon which amber was washed by the waves, distant a day's sail from the aestuary called Mentonomon, on which the Gothones dwelt.
This island was called Basilia by Timaeus, and Baltia by Xenophon of Lampsacus.
It was probably a portion of the Prussian coast upon the Baltic. (
Plin. Nat. 37.7. s. 11;
Diod. 5.23; Ukert,
Geographie, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 33, seq.)
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