[Footnote 53: According to Adam of Bremen, (de Situ Daniae,
p. 58,) the old Curland extended eight days' journey along
the coast; and by Peter Teutoburgicus, (p. 68, A.D. 1326,)
Memel is defined as the common frontier of Russia, Curland,
and Prussia. Aurum ibi plurimum, (says Adam,) divinis
auguribus atque necromanticis omnes domus sunt plenae .... a
toto orbe ibi responsa petuntur, maxime ab Hispanis (forsan
Zupanis, id est regulis Lettoviae) et Graecis. The name of
Greeks was applied to the Russians even before their
conversion; an imperfect conversion, if they still consulted
the wizards of Curland, (Bayer, tom. x. p. 378, 402, &c.
Grotius, Prolegomen. ad Hist. Goth. p. 99.)]