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rivers are tlie Tecum and the Yernodubrum^ Tlie to\\-iis 

 are lUiberis-, the scanty remains of what was formerly a great 

 city, and Rnscino^, a town with Latian rights. A\^e then 

 come to the river Atax^ which flows from the Pyrenees, and 

 passes through the Eubrensian Lake*, the town of Narbo 

 Martins, a colony of the tenth legion, twelve miles distant 

 from the sea, and the rivers Arauris^ and Liria-^. The towns 

 are otherwise but few in number, in consequence of the 

 numerous lakes' which skirt the sea-shore. We have Aga- 

 tha^ formerly belonging to the Massilians, and the district of 

 the Volcae Tectosages^*^ ; and there is the spot where Ehoda", 

 a Ehodian colony, formerly stood, from which the river takes 

 its name of Ehodanus'- ; a stream by far the most fertilizing 

 of any in either of the Gallias. Descending from the Alps 

 and rushing through lake Lemanus^^, it carries along with it 

 the sluirHsh Arar^"*, as well as the torrents of the Isara and 



in 



the Druentia^^ no less rapid than itself. Its two smaller 

 mouths are called Libica^*^, one being the Spanish, and the 



1 Probably the Tech, and the Yerdouble, which falls into the Glj. 



2 Probably the present Ehie, on the Tech. 



3 The present Castel Eoussillon, •* The Aude of the present day. 

 ^ The bodies of water now called Etangs de Bages et de Sigean. 



^ Now the Herault. 



7 Now called the Lez, near the city of MontpeUier. 



** Now called Etangs de Leucate, de Sigean, de Gruissan, de Tendrcs, 

 de Thau, de Magnelonne, de Perols, de Mauguio, du Repausset ; Marais 

 d'Escamandre, de Lemiitane et de la Souteyrane, and numerous others. 



^ Now the town of Agde. Strabo also informs us that this place was 

 foimded by the MassHians. 



^^ This people seems to have inhabited the eastern parts of the depart- 

 ments of r Arriege and the Haute Garonne, that of Aude, the south of 

 that of Tarn, and of that of Herault, except the arrondissement of Mont- 

 peUier. 



11 Dalechamp takes this to be Eoz les Martigues ; but the locaUty is 

 doubtfvd. Most probably tliis is the same place that is mentioned by 

 Strabo as Rhoe, in conjunction with the town of Agathe or Agde, and 

 the Rodanusia of Stephen of Byzantium, who places it in the district of 

 Massiha or Marseilles. 



12 Now the Rhone. i3 Now the Lake of Geneva. 



!■* The modem Saone. i* Now the rivers Isere and Durance. 



1^ Most probably fi'om Libici, a towni in the south of Gaul, of wliich 

 there are coins in existence, but notliing else seems to be known. At 

 the present day there are four mouths of the Rhone, the mo?t westerly 

 of which is called the " Dead" Rhone ; the next tlie " Lesser" Rlionc ; 

 the tMrd the " Old " Rhone ; and the fourth suuply the Rhone. D'Au- 



