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them belong six towns, Secontia and Uxama, com- 

 mon names in other regions, also Segovia and Nova 

 Augusta, with Termes and Corunna itself, the end of 

 Celtiberia. The rest of the countiy stretches to- 

 wards the ocean, and here are the Varduli of those 

 alreadv mentioned and tlie Cant.ibri, 



Adjoining these are twenty-two peoples of the 

 Astures, divided into the Augustani and the Trans- 

 montani, ^\ith the splendid city of Asturica; these 

 inchide the Gigurri, Pescii, Lancienses and Zoelae. 

 The total number of the population amounts to 

 240,000 free persons. 



The jurisdiction of Lucus contains 15 peoples, i-,ugo. 

 unimportant andbearingoutlandish names, excepting 

 tlie Celtici and Lemavi, but with a free population 

 amounting to about 166,000. 



In a similar way the twenty-four states of Braga Braga. 

 contain 285,000 persons, of whom besides the Bracari 

 themselves may be mentioned, without wearjnng the 

 reader, the BibaUi, Coelerni, Callaeci, Equaesi, Limici 

 and Querquerni. 



The length of Hither Spain from the Pyrenees to THmensions 

 the frontier of Cazlona is 007 miles, and a Httle more "spain. '" 

 along the coast ; its breadth from Tarragon to tlie 

 shore of Olarson is 307 miles, starting from the foot 

 of the Pyrenees, where the countr}- forms the shape 

 of a wedge between the two seas ; then gradually 

 it videns out, and where it touches Further Spain it 

 adds more than as much again to its breadth. 



Nearly the whole of Spain is covered with mines of Hinerais 

 lead, iron, copper, silver and gold, Hither Spain pentnsuia. 

 with muscovite mines also ; Baetica abounds in 

 cinnabar as well. There are besides quarries of 

 marble. His Majesty the Emperor Vespasian be- 



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