Cliap. 36.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 3G7 



cienses\ tlie Mirobrigenses, siimamed^ Celtici, the Medu- 

 brigenses^, suriianied Plumbarii, the Ocelenses"* or Lauci- 

 enses, the Turduli, also called Barduli, and the Tapori. 

 Agrippa states, that Lusitaiiia, with Asturia and Galhecia, 

 is 540 miles in length, and 536 in breadth. The pro- 

 vinces of Spain, measiu'ed from the two extreme* promontories 

 of the P^Tcnees, along the sea-line of the entire coast, are 

 thought to be 3922 miles in circumference ; while some 

 writers make them to be but 2600. 



CHAP. 36. — THE ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



Opposite to Celtiberia are a number of islands, by the 

 Greeks called Cassiterides^in consequence of their abounding 

 in tin : and, facing the Promontory^ of the Arrotreba?, are 

 the six Islands of the Gods, which some persons have 

 called the Fortunate Islands^. At the very commencement 



^ Mannert is of opinion that the city of Lancia was situate in the 

 north of Lusitania, on the river Durius, or Douro, near the modern 

 Zamora. 



2 To distinguish them from the IMirobrigenses, sumamcd Turduli, 

 mentioned in B. iii. c. 3. Some writers think that this Mii-obriga is the 

 present Ciudad Eodrigo ; but Ambrose Morales takes it to be the place 

 called Malabriga, in the vicinity of that city. 



3 The name of Medubriga was afterwards Aramenha, of which Har- 

 douin says the ruins only were to be seen. They were probably called 

 JPlumharii, from lead mines in their vicmity. 



■* According to Hardouin, Ocelum was in the vicroity of the modem 

 Capara. 



» From Cape de Creuz to the Promontory between the cities of Fon- 

 tarabia and Saint Sebastian. 



^ From the Greek jcacrcrtrepos, " tin." It is generally supposed that the 

 " Tin Islands" were the Scilly Isles, in the vicinity of Cornwall. At the 

 same time the Greek and Koman geographers, borrowing their knowlodgo 

 from the accounts probably of the Phoenician merchants, soem to have had 

 a very indistinct notion of their precise locality, antl to have thought them 

 to be nearer to Spain than to Britain. Thus we fhid Strabo, in B. iii., 

 saying, that " the Cassiterides are ten in number, lying near eacli other 

 in the ocean, towards the rxorih. from the haven of the Ariabri." From 

 a comparison of the accounts, it would almost ajjpear that the ancient 

 geographers confused the Scilly Islands with the Azores, as those, who 

 enter into any detail, attribute to the Cassiterides the characteristics 

 almost as much of the Azores and the sea in their vicinity, aa of the 

 Scilly Islands. 7 Capo Finisterre. 



8 Or the " Islands of the Blest." Wo cannot do better than quote a 



