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ings. Moreover different persons take different 

 starting-points for their measurements and foUow 

 different lines ; and the consequence is that no two 

 authorities agree. 



II. At present the length of Baetica from the 

 frontier of the town of Cazlona to Cadiz is 250 

 miles, and from the sea-front of Murgi 25 miles 

 more ; its breadth from Cai-teia along the coast 

 to the Guadiana is 234 miles. Agrippa was a very 

 painstaking man, and also a very eareful geographer ; 

 who therefore could believe that when intending to 

 set before the eyes of Rome a survey of the world 

 he made a mistake, and with him the late lamented 

 Augustus ? for it was Augustus who completed the 

 portico" containing a plan of the world that had 

 been begun by his sister in accordance vnih the 

 design and memoranda of Marcus Agrippa. 



III. The okl shape of Hither Spain has been con- Western 

 siderably altered, as has been that of several provinces, ^" "" 

 in as much as Pompey the Great on histrophies which 



he set up in the Pyrenees testified that he had brought 

 into subjection 876 towns between the Alps and the 

 borders of Further Spain. Today the whole province 

 is divided into seven jurisdictions, namely those of 

 Cartagena, Tarragon, Saragossa, Clunia, Astorga, 

 Lugo, Braga. In addition there are the islands which 

 will be mentioned separately, but the province itself 

 contains, besides 293 states dependent on others, 

 189 towns, of which 12 are colonies, 13 are towns of 

 Iloman citizens, 18 have the old Latin rights, one is 

 a treaty town and 135 are tributary. 



The first people, on the coast, are the Bastuli, and DUtricts. 

 after them in the following order proceeding inland 

 come the Mentesani, the Qretani, the Carpetani 



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