Note 437 — ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES.
Francis Adams translation
The following lines of Virgil, referred to above, may be almost said to be a translation of this passage:
“Semper hiems, semper spirantes frigora Cauri. Tum sol pallentes haud unquam discutit umbras; ***** Talis Hyperboreo septem subjecta trioni Gens effrena virûm Rhiphæo tunditur Euro.”
It was in this region of mist and cold that the celebrated race of the Cimmerians resided. See Herodot., i., 6, etc.; Homer, Odyss. x., 14. The montes Rhiphæi would appear to have been the Ural mountains which separate Russia from Siberia.