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Lake Garda, and the nation extended to the vicinity of 

 the present Avignon, where Strabo places the Celto- 

 Ligurians. They long were bold seamen, and a brave 

 and industrious people, defending their liberties against 

 Roman encroachment during forty years, before their 

 last tribe was subdued. They had been early dis- 

 turbed, both in the Alps and on the coast, by Gallic 

 invaders, who absorbed, or forced settlements among 

 them. It was from the Ligurian tribe of Legobriges, 

 about the year B. C. 600, when the Phoenician and 

 Khodian trade had declined, that the Phocian Euxinos 

 obtained the cession of the port of Marseilles, by 

 means of Petta, daughter of the chief Nannus. The 

 transaction is related with particulars, both by Aris- 

 totle and Justin ; but the fact itself, indicates the con- 

 sanguinity of these tribes with the Grecian Locri, who 

 were neighbours of the Phocians. 



By the eminently marine habits of this people, and 

 their migrating disposition, they were, it seems, scat- 

 tered in various regions ; and nowhere, except at the 

 head of the Adriatic and in the Alps, had national 

 consistency. They were of common origin with the 

 Istrian, Liburnian, and other tribes, who appear like- 

 wise to have claimed a Colchian descent. Their ships, 

 from the humblest raft, and the coracle of three and a 

 half ox hides, sewed and stretched over a frame-work 

 of willow, changing successively to lintres, logs, longs, 

 Lib^rnic-biremes, caracks, caravellas, and finally to 

 ragusas or argosies, were in general the models of 



