ABALUS, in Ancient Geography, supposed by the ancients to be an island in the German ocean, called by Timæus Basilia, and by Xenophon Lampsacenus Bullia; now the peninsula of Scandinavia. Here, according to Pliny, some imagined that amber dropped from the trees.
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