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DOMBSTIC MANNEBS OE THE TBUSSIANS.

Its coasts traverse fivc European states; viz. Austria (in •the province of Vorarlberg), Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Baden,and Switzerland (in the Cantons of St. Gall and Thurgau);the latter nation, indeed, possesses the whole of the southerncoast, witli the exception of the town of Constanz. The prin-cipal cities on its banks are Bregenz in Austria, Lindau inBavaria, Friedrichshafen in Wirtemburg, Meersburg andConstanz in Baden, Romanshorn Arbon and Rorschach inSwitzerland.

The original name of the Boden See was " Lacus Brigan-tinus," and the part of the Lake between Bregenz and Lindaucalled the "Bregenzer See " to this day. Towards the end ofthe ninth Century, however, it obtained the title of "LacusPotamicus," or Podamicus, and this was afterwards corruptedinto Bodamer See, Bodrner See, Bodam See, and finally toBoden See. At the end of the lacustrine brauch called theUeberlingen See, there is a town still bearing the name of Bod-mann, and some persons doubt whether this gave its nameto, or derived it from, the Lake.

The first mention of this Lake is under the title of LacusBrigantinus, during the reign of Augustus, who sent Ins step-son Claudius Drusus, as well as bis eldest son, Tiberius Nero, tosubdue the South German tribes, who were making ineursionsinto the Roman territories. Tiberius advanced through theGallic provinces, and Drusus up the Rhine, and on meeting atArbon they beheld the Lake for the first time. Tiberius issaid to have fitted out a fleet and sailed over the Lake, landingon an island which some suppose to have been Iieickenau; butwhich others, with more probability, affirm to have beenLindau.

Atthis time three savage tribes dwelt upon the banks: (1),the Helveticas, who oecupied the southern or Swiss bank of the