190 History of Nature. [BOOK III. 



from Tergeste; but what River it was, is unknown. The 

 more diligent Enquirers say, that it was carried upon Men's 

 Shoulders over the Alps : and that it was embarked into 

 Ister, and so into Saus, and then Nauportus, which upon 

 that occasion took his Name, which riseth between ^Emona 

 and the Alps. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 Istria. 



ISTRIA runneth out like a Peninsula. Some have deli- 

 vered, that it is 40 Miles broad, and 122 Miles in Circuit. 

 The like they say of Liburnia adjoining to it, and of the Bay 

 Flanaticus. But others say, that the Circuit of Liburnia is 

 180 Miles. Some have set out Japidia to the Bay Flanaticus, 

 behind Istria, 130 Miles : and so have made Liburnia in Cir- 

 cuit 150 Miles. TuditanuSj who subdued the Istri, upon his 

 own Statue there set this Inscription : from Aquileia to 

 the River Titius, are 200 Stadia. The Towns in Istria, of 

 Roman Citizens, are ^Egida and Parentium. A Colony there 

 is, Pola, now called Pietas Julia ; built in old Time by the 

 Colchii. It is from Tergeste, 100 Miles. Soon after, the 

 Town Nesactium, and the River Arsia, now the Bound of 

 Italy. From Ancona to Pola, there is a Passage over the 

 Sea of 120 Miles. In the Midland Part of this tenth Region 

 are the Colonies, Cremona and Brixia, in the Country of 

 the Cenomanni : but in the Country of the Veneti, Ateste. 

 Also the Towns Acelum, Patavium, Opitergium, Belunum, 

 Vicetia : Mantua of the Tusci, the only Place left beyond 

 the Padus. That the Veneti were the Offspring of the Tro- 



which it seems they came into Africa, and when arrived on land, carrying 

 the ship on their shoulders until they came to the Tritoniari Lake, they 

 sailed into the Mediterranean, and touched at Thera; thence through 

 the Ocean they came to the island of Lemnos. (See Wheelwright's 

 " Pindar.") But a more probable course would be one approaching that 

 given by Pliny in the text. The whole story of the Argonauts, how- 

 ever, having, in the lapse of time, become a mere fable, it is not worth the 

 attempt to illustrate it. Wern. Club. 



