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stowed the rights of Latium on the whole of Spain 

 when it had been storm-tossed by civil disorders. 

 The frontier between the Spanish and the GaUic 

 provinces is formed by the mountains of the P^Tcnees, 

 with headlands projecting into the two seas on either 

 side. 



IV. The part of the Gauls washed by the Medi- Southern 

 terranean is entitled the province of Narbonne, geography, 

 having pre\iously had the name of Bracata." It is ^^,-6^^""'^ 

 di\ided from Italy by the river Var, and by the ranges 

 of the Alps,a very secure protection for the Roman 

 Empire, and from the rest of Gaul on the north by the 

 Cevermes and Jura mountains. Its agriculture, the 

 high repute of its men and manners and the vastness 

 of its wealth make it the equal of any other province : 

 it is, in a word, not so much a province as a part of 

 Italy. On the coast there is the district of the Sor- 

 dones, and more inland that of the Consuarani ; the 

 rivers are the Tech and the Verdouble, and the towns 

 Elne, the mere shadow of what was once a mighty city, 

 and Castel Roussillon, which has Latin rights. Then 

 come the river Aude, which flows from the Pvrenees 

 through the lake Ilubrensis,'' Narbonne, a colony of 

 the tenth legion twelve miles from the sea, and the 

 rivers Herault and Lez. Apart from those mentioned 

 there are but few towns, owing to the marshes that 

 fringe the coast. There is Agde, formerly belonging 

 to Marseilles, the district of the \'olcae Tectosages, 

 and the former site of Rhoda, a colony of Rhodes, that 

 has given its name to the Rhone, the most fertile river 

 ofthetwo Gauls,which rushes from the Alpsthrough 

 the Lake of Geneva,bringingalongthesluggish Saone 

 and the Isere and Durance which are as rapid as itself. 

 Of its mouths the two smaller are called Libica, 



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