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count, Arsa, Mellaria, and Mirobrica: and the Regions Osrutigi 

 and Sisapone. Within the Jurisdiction of Gades, there is a 

 Town of Roman Citizens called Regina : of Latins, there are 

 Laepia, Ulia, Carisa, surnamed Aurelia, Urgia, which is like- 

 wise named Castrurn Julium : also, Csesaris Salutariensis. 

 Stipendiaries there be, Besaro, Belippo, Berbesula, Lacippo, 

 Besippo, Callet, Cappagum, Oleastro, Itucci, Brana, Lacibi, 

 Saguntia, Andorisippo. The whole Length of it M . Agrippa 

 hath set down 463 Miles, and the Breadth 257. But because 

 the Bounds reached to Carthage, which Cause occasioneth 

 oftentimes Errors in computing the Measure ; at one Place 

 in the Limits of the Provinces, and in another the Paces in 

 journeying being either more or less ; also, considering that 

 the Seas in so long a Time have encroached here upon the 

 Land, and the Banks again gotten there of the Sea ; or that 

 the Rivers have either turned crooked or gone straight : be- 

 sides, that some have begun to take their Measure from this 

 Place, others from that, and gone divers Ways : it is by these 

 Means come to pass, that no two agree together. 



CHAPTER II. 

 The Length and Breadth of Bcetica. 



THE Length of Bcetica at this day, from the Bound of the 

 Town Castulo to Gades, is 475 Miles : and from Murgi on 

 the Sea-coast, more by twenty-two Miles. The Breadth 

 from the Border of Carteia is 224 Miles. And who would 

 believe that Agrippa (a Man so diligent, and in this Work 

 principally so careful) did err, when he purposed to set out a 

 View of the whole World for the City, and Divus Augustus 

 with him ? For he finished the Portico begun according to 

 the Designation and Memorials appointed by the Sister of 

 M. Agrippa. 



CHAPTER III. 

 The nearer Spain. 



THE old Form of the nearer Spain is somewhat changed, 

 as also of many other Provinces, as Pompey the Great in the 



