BOOK III. I. 5-7 



half of the world, dividing the whole circle into two 

 portions by a line drawn from the river Don to the 

 Straits of Gibraltar. The ocean, pouring the Atlantic 

 sea through the passage I have described, and in its 

 eager progress overwhelming all the lands that 

 shrank in awe before its coming, washes also those 

 that offer resistance with a winding and broken coast- 

 Hne : Europe especially it hollows out with a succes- 

 sion of bays, but into four chief gulfs, of which the westem 

 first bends in a vast curve from the Rock of Gibraltar, ^an"*""' 

 which, as I have said, is the extremity of Spain, right 

 to Locri on Cape Spartivento. 



The first land situated on this gulf is called Further The Spanish 

 Spain or Baetica," and then, from the frontier at 

 Mujacar, Hither Spain or the Department of Tarragon, 

 extending to the chain of the Pyrenees, Further 

 Spain is divided lengthwise into two provinces, 

 Lusitania <> extending along the north side of 

 Baetica and separated from it by the river Anas.*' 

 This rises in Hither Spain, in the territory of Lamin- Physicai 

 ium.<* and now spreading out into meres, now con- seoc^apfii/. 

 tracting into narrows, or burrowing entirely under- 

 ground and gaily emerging again several times over, 

 discharges itself into the Atlantic Ocean. The 

 Department of Tarragon adjoins the Pyrenees, 

 running down along the whole of one side of the 

 chain and also extending across from the Iberian 

 Sea to the Galhc Ocean,* and is separated from Baetica 

 and Lusitania bv Mount Solorius/ and by the ranges 

 Df the Oretani and Carpentani and of the Astures.s' 



Baetica, named after the river Baetis which Andaiusia. 



f The Sierra Nevada. 



» The Sierra Morena, Mont de Toledo and Sierra de laa 

 Asturias. 



