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tines ; Anatilia, Aeria, Bormannico, Comacina, Cabellio, 

 Carcasum of the Volscan Tectosages ; Cessero, Carpen- 

 toracte of the Menines ; the Cenicenses, Cambolecti, who 

 are named Atlantici, Forum Voconii, Glanum, Livii, Lu- 

 tevani, who are the same as the Foro-neronienses : Ne- 

 rnausum of the Arecomici, Piscense, Ruteni, Sanugenses, and 

 Tolosani of the Tectosages. The Borderers upon Aquitane, 

 Tasco-dumetari, Canonienses, Umbranici : two capital 

 Towns of the confederate City of the Vocontians, Vasco and 

 Lucus Augusti ; but Towns of no importance nineteen, as 

 twenty-four annexed to the Nemausienses. To this Charter 

 Galba the Emperor added of the Alpine Inhabitants, the 

 Avantici and Eproduntii, whose Town is named Dima. 

 Agrippa saith that the Length of the Province Narbonensis 

 is 270 Miles, and the Breadth 248. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Italy, Tiber, Rome, Campania. 



NEXT to them is Italy ; and the first of it the Ligurians : 

 then Hetruria, Umbria, Latium, where are the Mouths of 

 Tiberis and Rome, the Head of the whole Earth, sixteen 

 Miles distant from the Sea. After it is the maritime Country 

 of the Volscians, and Campania : then Picentium, Lu- 

 canum, and Brutium, the furthest Point in the South, to 

 which, from the moonshaped Mountains of the Alps, Italy 

 shooteth out to the Seas. From it is the Sea-coast of 

 Graecia, and soon after, the Salentini, Pediculi, Apuli, 

 Peligni, Ferentani, Marrucini, Vestini, Sabini, Picentes, 

 Galli, Urnbri, Tusci, Veneti, Carni, lapides, Istri, and 

 Liburni. 



Neither am I ignorant that it might be thought justly a 

 point of an unthankful and stupid Mind, if briefly in this 

 sort, and cursorily, that Land should be spoken of which is 

 the Nurse of all Lands. She also is the Mother, chosen by 

 the Power of the Gods, to make even Heaven itself more 

 Glorious ; to gather into One the scattered Empires, to 

 soften the Fashions of other Countries ; and whereas the 



