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Also, the islands called Cicæ^[1] the famous city of Abobrica^[2], the river Minius^[3], four miles wide at its mouth, the Leuni, the Seurbi^[4], and Augustæ^[5], a town of the Bracari, above whom lies Galæcia. We then come to the river Limia^[6], and the river Durius^[7], one of the largest in Spain, and which rises in the district of the Pelendones^[8], passes near Numantia, and through the Arevaci and the Vaccæi, dividing the Yettones from Asturia, the Grallæci from Lusitania, and separating the Turduli from the Bracari. The whole of the region here mentioned from the Pyrenees is full of mines of gold, silver, iron, and lead, both black and white^[9].

CHAP. 35. (21.) — LUSITANIA.

After passing the Durius, Lusitania^[10] begins. We here have the ancient Turduli^[11], the Pæsuri, the river Vaga^[12], the town of Talabrica, the town and river^[13] of Æminium, the towns of Conimbrica^[14], Collippo^[15], and Eburobritium^[16], Apromontory^[17] then advances into the sea in shape of a large horn; by some it has been called Artabrum^[18], by others the Grreat Promon-

1. The modem Islas do Scyas or of Bayona.
2. The town of Bayona, about six leagues from the mouth of the river Minho.
3. The Minlio.
4. They occupied the tract of country lying between the rivers, and known as Entre Douro y Minho,
5. Now Braga on the Cavado.
6. The Lima.
7. The river Douro.
8. See B. iii. c. 3.
9. Both lead, properly so called, and tin.
10. In a great degree corresponding with modem Portugal, except that the latter includes the tract of country between the Minho and Douro.
11. To distinguish them from the nation of tie same name sprung from them, and occupying the Farther Spain. (B. iii. c. 3.) The Pæsuri occupied the site of the present towns of Lamego and Arouca.
12. The modem Tonga, which runs below the town of Aveiro, raised from the ruins of ancient Talabrica.
13. Agueda, which, according to Hardouin, is the name of both the river and the town.
14. Coimbra, formerly Condeja la Yeja.
15. Leiria is supposed to occupy its site.
16. According to Hardouin, the modem Ebora de Alcobaza, ten leagues from Leiria.
17. The modern Cabo de la Koea, seven leagues from Lisbon.
18. Pliny, in C. 34, places the Arrotrebæ, belonging to the Conventus of Lucus Angusti, about the Promontorium Coltieum, which, if not the same as the Nerium (or Cape Finisterre) of the others, is evidenlly in its immediate neighbourhood; but he confuses the whole matter by