246 PLIlfT's NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book III. 



rus\ all of which originate in the overflow of the waters in 

 the Philistinian Canal, swollen by the streams of the Atesis, 

 descending from the Tridentine Alps, and of the Togisonns^, 

 flowing from the territory of the Patavini. A portion of them 

 also forms the adjoining port of Brnndnlum^, in the same 

 manner as Edron^ is formed by the two rivers Meduacus and 

 the Clodian Canal. With the waters of these streams the 

 Padiis unites, and with them discharges itself into the sea, 

 forming, according to most writers, between the Alps and 

 the sea-shore a triangular figure, 2000 stadia in circum- 

 ference, not unlike the Delta formed by the JN^ile in Egypt. 

 I feel somewhat ashamed to have to borrow from the Greeks 

 any statement in reference to Italy ; Metrodorus of Scepsos, 

 however, informs us that this river has obtained its name of 

 Padus from the fact, that about its source there are great 

 numbers of pine-trees, which in the Gallic language are 

 called "padi." In the tongue of the Ligurians this river is 

 called " Bodincus," which signifies "the bottomless." This 

 derivation is in some measure supported by the fact that 

 near this river there is the town of Industrial, of which the 

 ancient name was Bodincomagum, and where the river be- 

 gins to be of greater depth than in other parts. 



CHAP. 21. (17.) — THE ELEVENTH EEGIO:ff OF ITALY ; ITALIA 



TEAlSrSPADAlSTA. 



• Erom the river Padus the eleventh region receives its 

 name of Transpadana ; to which, situate as it is wholly in 

 the interior, the river, by its bounteous channel, conveys 

 the gifts of all the seas. The towns are Vibi Eorum^ and 



ants of the spot. They are now called the Bocca della Grnoca, the 

 Bocca della Scovetta, the Busa delle Tole, the Sbocco dell'Asmino, &c. 

 The Ostia Cai-bonaria and the Fossae Philistmge wei'e to the north of the 

 ones previously mentioned. 



^ He seems to confoimd the Fosses of Philistina with the Tartarus 

 (nowTarfcaro). That river however connected the Fosses of Phihstina 

 with the Athesis, now the Adige. 



^ Now the Bacchiglione. ^ q^i^^ modern Brondolo. 



* Now Chioggia, formed by the rivers Brenta and BrenteUa. Hardouin 

 thinks the Clodian Canal to be the same as the modern Fossa Paltana. 



^ NowMonteu di Po, below Chevasso, mentioned in the 7th Chapter. 



* This place is supposed to have been situate in the vicinity of the 



