![]() ![]() The Germans themselves, I am inclined to think, are natives of the soil and extremely little affected by immigration or friendly intercourse with other nations. Its seventh mouth is swallowed up in marshes.Ģ. The Danube flows from a gentle grassy slope of Mount Abnoba and passes more peoples than the Rhine in its course, before it discharges by six channels into the Black Sea. The Rhine rises in a remote and precipitous peak of the Rhaetian Alps and bends gently westward to lose itself in the northern ocean. It is only in recent times that war has revealed the existence there of nations and kings unknown before. Its northern coasts, with their broad promontories and vast islands beyond, are lapped by Ocean. The country we know under the name of Germany is separated from Gaul, on the one hand, and from Rhaetia and Pannonia, on the other, by the rivers Rhine and Danube, from Sarmatia and Dacia by the barrier of mutual fear or mountain ranges. ![]() Germania (Ancient Germany) by Cornelius Tacitus Germaniaġ. ![]()
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