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the Copori, the to^\Ti of Noeta, the Celts surnamed 

 Praestamarci, the Cileni. Of the islands must be 

 specified Corticata and Aunios. After the Cilem", 

 in the jurisdiction of the Bracae are the Helleni, the 

 Grovi and Tyde Castle, all people of Greek stock; 

 the Dry Islands, the town of Abobrica, the river 

 Minho four miles wide at its mouth, the Leuni, the 

 Seurbi, Augusta, a town belonging to the Bracae, 

 above whom is Gallaecia ; the Limia stream and the 

 river Douro, one of the largest in Spain, which 

 rises in the district of the Pelendones and passing 

 by Numantia then flows through the Arevaci and 

 Vaccaei, separating the Vettones from Asturia and 

 the Gallaeci froni Lusitania, and at this point also 

 separating the Turduh from the Bracari. The whole 

 of the district mentioned, from the Pyrenees onward, 

 is fuU of mines of gold, silver, iron, lead and tin. 



XXI. From the Douro begins Lusitania : <* the Portugai. 

 old TurduH,* the Paesuri, the river Vouga, the town 

 of Talabrica, the town and river Agueda, the towns 

 of Coimbra, Leiria and Eboro di Alcobaza. Then 

 there runs out into the sea a promontory " shaped 

 hke a vast horn, called by some people Artabrum, by 

 otliers the Great Cape, and by many Cape Lisbon 

 after the town ; this headland sharply divides tlie 

 land and sea and chmate. This eape ends the side 

 of Spain. and after rounding it the front "^ of Spain 

 begins. XXII. On one side of it is the north 

 and the GalHc Ocean, and on the other the west 

 and the Atlantic. The distance to which this pro- 

 montory projects has been given as 60 miles, and 

 by others as 90 miles ; the distance from here to 

 the Pyrenees many give as 1250 miles, and place 

 here a race of Artabres, which never existed, 



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