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otlier parts, as we have previously mentioned \ seeing to what 

 an immense extent it is liere hemmed in by the ocean on the 

 one side, and by the Iberian Sea on the other. A chain of 

 the Pyrenees, extending from due east to south-west'-, divides 

 Spain into two parts, the smaller one to the north, the 

 larger to the south. The first coast that presents itself is 

 that of the Nearer Spain, otherwise called Tarraconensis. 

 On lea^4ng the Pyrenees and proceeding along the coast, we 

 meet with the forest ranges of the Vascones^, Olarso^, the 

 to\\'ns of the Yarduli^ the Morosgi^, Menosca', Vesperies^, 

 and tlie Port of Anianus^, where now stands the colony of 

 Plaviobriga. We then come to the district of the nine 

 states of the Cantabri^", the river Sauga^\ and the Port of 

 Victoria of the Juliobrigenses^-, from which place tlie sources 

 of the Iberus^"* are distant forty miles. We next come to 

 the Port of Blendium^"*, the Orgenomesci^', a people of the 

 Cantabri, Vereasueca^^ their port, the country of the As- 



1 B. iii. c. 3. 2 From Kuscino to Gades. 



3 In the province now known as Guipuzcoa. 



■* Supposed to be the present Cabo do la lliguera. 



^ Probably mhabiting the eastern part of the provinces of Biscay and 

 Alava, the eastern portion of Navarre, and, perhaps, a jDart of the pro- 

 vince of Guipuzcoa. * According to Hardouin the 

 modem San Sebastian occupies the site of their to\vn. 



7 On the same site as the modern Bermco, according to Mannert. 

 Hardoxiin thinks, however, and with greatei* probabihty, that it was 

 situate at the mouth of the river Orio. 



^ D'Anville considers this to be the site of the city of Berraeo. 



^ Poinsinet thinks that this is Flavio in Bilbao, D'Anville calls it 

 Portugalette, and Mannert thinks that it is the same as Santander, with 

 which opinion Ansart agrees. 



^^ Accordmg to Ptolemy, the Cantabri possessed the western part of 

 the provmce of La Montana, and the northern parts of the provinces of 

 Palencia and Toro. 



^^ Most probably thepresentRio de Suanc&s, by Mannert called the Saya, 

 into which the Besanga flows. Hardouin however calls it the Nervio. 



^'' Ansart suggests that this is the modern San Vicente de la Barqucra. 

 If the river Sauga is the same with the Suanees, this cannot be the port of 

 Santander, as has been suggested. '•* Or Ebro. 



^* According to Ansart, tliis is cither the modern Ensenada de Ballota 

 or else the Puerta de P6. 



^^ According to Ansart, the Orgenomesci occupied the same ten'itory 

 whichPtolemy has assigned to the Cantabri in general. See Note ^^ above. 



•^ Hardouin takes tliis to be Yillavieiosa. Ajisart tliinks that Bia 

 de Cella occupies its site. 



