11/40 When that singular substance is analyzed by the chemists, it yields a vegetable oil and a mineral acid.] [Footnote 40: Scanzia, or Thule, is described by Jornandes (c. 3, p. 15.) Neither the Goth nor the Greek had visited the country: both had conversed with the natives in their exile at Ravenna or Constantinople.] [Footnote 41: Sapherinas pelles. In the time of Jornandes they inhabited Suethans, the proper Sweden; but that beautiful race of animals has gradually been driven into the eastern parts of Siberia. See Buffon, (Hist.Nat.tom.xiii.p. |