Of the lesser Islands of DENMARK, viz. Mone, Falster, Laland, Langeland, Alsen, Femeren, Bornholm, and others of less note, in the Baltick.
IN the time of Pomponius Mela, says Hey∣lin, most of the chief Islands of Denmark were by one general Name called the Hemodes, reckoned to be seven. Whereas Cluverius and Sanson are of Opinion, that the Ancients meant by the Hemodes the Isles of Schetland, some Leagues North of Scotland, and about the same Latitude as Bergen in Norway.
But, to wave that, let us now take a Sur∣vey of the lesser Islands of Denmark. Mone, Faster, and Laland, lye pretty close together South of Seland, from which parted by a nar∣row