noted sea, lying between part of Jutland and the coast of Sweden, and towards the latter covered with a great number of isles. It is almost closed at the extremity by the low Danish islands of Sealand and Funen, which had in old times been (with Sweden) the seat of the Sueones. Between the first and the coast of Sweden is the famous sound, the passage tributary to the Danes by thousands of ships. These islands were of old called Codonania, and gave to the Kattegat the name of Sinus Codonanus. Its greatest depth is 35 fathoms. It decreases as it approaches the sound; which begins with 16 fathoms, and near Copenhagen shallows to even four. The Roman fleet, under the command of Germanicus, sailed, according to Pliny, round Germany, and even doubled the Cimbriacum Promontorium, and arrived at the islands which fill the bottom of the Kattegat: either by observation or information, the Romans were acquainted with 23. One they called Gleffaria, from its amber, a fossil abundant to this day on part of the fourth side of the Baltic. A Roman knight was employed by Nero's master of the gladiators to collect in these parts that precious production, by which he became perfectly acquainted with this country.