Note 1576 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 2)
Reading edition
Otia imper., vol. i, p. 916. Gervase quotes Orosius, Hist. adv. pag., I, 2, 37, to the effect that Britain is 800 miles long by 200 broad, but adds that “more recent authorities” give its length as twenty days’ journeys and its breadth as ten days’ journeys. Elsewhere (Otia imper., vol. i, pp. 936–938) Gervase copies extensively from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Britonum, which contains a long account of various supernatural marvels of Britain.