Note 10 — II. STRABO, MELA, PLINY, PTOLEMY.

To understand the full significance of this sentence, we must consult the context. The first “additional parallel,” whose longest day was sixteen hours, ran through “the Daci and part of Germany, and the Gallic provinces, as far as the shores of the ocean.” The second traversed “the country of the Hyperborei and the island of Britannia, the longest day being seventeen hours in length.” The third is far more applicable to Iceland than to the Shetland or Færoe groups.