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Regions. The Maritime Towns I will set down in the order 

 as they stand, according to their vicinity one to another. 

 But as in so running a Speech, the rest cannot be so 

 orderly described, therefore in the Inland part thereof I 

 will follow him as he hath digested them in Letters, but 

 mentioning the Colonies by Name which he hath delivered 

 in that number. Neither is it easy to follow thoroughly 

 their Positions and Origins, considering the Ingaun Li- 

 gurians (to say nothing of all the rest) were endowed with 

 Lands thirty times. To begin with the River Varus, there- 

 fore, there is the Town Nicsea, built by the Massilians ; the 

 River Po ; the Alps ; the People within the Alps, of many 

 Names, but chiefly the Capillati : the Town Vediantiorum, 

 the City Cemelion (or a Town belonging to the State of the 

 Vedianti, called Cemelion) ; the Port of Hercules Monoscus ; 

 the Ligustian Coast. Of the Liguri, the most renowned 

 beyond the Alps are the Sally i, Deceates, and Oxubii : on 

 this Side, the Veneni, and, descended from the Caturiges, 

 the Vagienni, Statilli, Vibelli, Magelli, Euburiates, Cas- 

 monates, Veliates, and those whose Towns we will declare 

 in the next Coast. The River Rutuba, the Town Albium, 

 Intemelium, the River Merula, the Town Albium Ingaunum, 

 the Port Vadum Sabatium, the River Porcifera, the Town 

 Genua, the River Feritor ; the Port Delphini, Tigulia : 

 within, Segesta Tiguliorum : the River Macra, which limiteth 

 Liguria. But on the back of all these Towns above-named 

 is Apenninus, the highest Mountain of all Italy, reaching 

 from the Alps, with a continual ridge of Hills, to the 

 Straits of Sicily. From the other Side of this to Pad us, 

 the richest River of Italy, all the Country shineth with noble 

 Towns : Liberna, Dertona a Colony, Iria, Barderates, In- 

 dustria, Pollentia, Cartea, which also is named Polentia; 

 Foro Fulvii the same as Valentinum ; Augusta of the Va- 

 gienni : Alba Pompeia, Asta, and Aquae Statiellorum. This 

 is the ninth Region, according to the Arrangement of Au- 

 gustus. The Coast of Liguria lieth between the Rivers Varus 

 and Macra, 211 Miles. To it is adjoined the seventh, 



