856 plint's natueal histoUt. [Book lY. 



tains the Lexovii\ tlie Yellocasses^, the Galeti^, the Veneti^, 

 the Abrincatui^, the Ossismi^, and the celehrated river Lige- 

 ris'^, as also a most remarkable peninsula, which extends into 

 the ocean at the extremity^ of the territory of the Ossismi, 

 the circumference of which is 625^ miles, and its breadth at 

 the neck 125^". Beyond this are the Nannetes^\ and in the 

 interior are the ^dui^^, a federal people, the Carnuti^^, a federal 

 people, the Boii^^, the Senones^^, the Aulerci, both those sur- 

 named Eburovices^'^ and those called Cenomanni^'^, the 

 Meldi'^, a free people^ the Parisii^^, the Tricasses'*^, the An- 



1 Dwelling in the west of the department of Calvados, and the east of 

 the department of the Eure. From them Lisieiix takes its name. 



2 They occupied the department of the Lower Seine. 



^ They are supposed to have dwelt in the vicinity of Lillebonne, in 

 the department of the Lower Seine. 



* They gave name to the town of Vannes in the department of Morbihan. 



5 From them the city of Avranches, in the department of La Manche, 

 derives its name. 



^ They occupied the modern department of Fmisterre. ^ The Loire. 



s This spot is placed by D' Anville near the modern city of Saint Brieuc. 

 He refers here to the peninsula of Brittany, wliich ends in Finisterre. 



^ Ansart remarks that the circuit of the peninsula from Saint Brieuc 

 to the mouth of the river Vilaine is only 4o0 miles, but that if taken from 

 the city of Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, it is 650. 



^^ Ansart states that from Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, in a 

 straight line, is twenty miles less than the distance here given by Pliny. 



1^ Inhabitants of the department of the Lower Loire or Lofre Inferieure. 



^2 This extensive people inhabited the present departments of the Saone 

 et Loire, Allier, Nievre, Ehone nord, and Loire nord. Autuu and Chalons- 

 sm'-Marne stand on the site of their ancient towns. 



^^ They inhabited the departments of the Eure et Loire, and portions 

 of those of the Seine et Oise, of the Lofre et Cher, and of the Loiret. 

 Chartres occupies the site of their town. 



^'^ They occupied a part of the department of the AUier. Mouhns stands 

 on the site of then* chief town. 



^^ Sens, in the department of the Yonne, stands on the site of their 

 chief town. 



^^ The cliief town of the Aiilerci Eburovices was on the site of the 

 present Passy-sur-Eure, called by the mliabitants Old Evreux, in the 

 department of the Eure. 



^7 They dwelt in the vicinity of the city of Le Mans, in the department 

 of the Sarthe. 



^^ Meaux, in the department of the Seine et Marne, denotes the site of 

 their principal tov\Ti. ^^ Paris, anciently Lutetia, denotes then* locahty. 



2" The city of Troyes, in the depax'tment of the Aube, denotes their 

 locality. 



