Excerpt from An Account of the Arctic Regions, Vol. 2 of 2: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
The work of Orosius is asummaryofanca t_history, ending with the year 417, at which period he lived. He was a Spaniard and a Christian. To this translation, Alfred add ed, ofhis own contposition, a Sketch of Germany, and the va luable Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, the former towards the North Pole, the latter into the Baltic Sea. The principal ms. Of Alfred's Orosius, which is very ancient and well writ ten, is preserved in the Cotton Library, Tiberius, b. 1. In 1 778, the Honourable Daines Barrington published the Air gin-saxon Orosius, with an English translation. His us. Was a transcript formerly made of this - Turner s Anglo Sauau, vol. Ii. P. 282, 283, and 284.
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