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Cluiiia\ of Asturica^, of Lucus', and of the Bracari^. To these 

 are to be added the islands, which will be described ou 

 another occasion, as also 293 states which are dependent on 

 others ; besides which the province contains 179 towns. Of 

 these, twelve are colonies, thirteen, towns with the rights of 

 Roman citizens, eighteen with the old Latian rights, one 

 confederate, and 135 tributary. 



The first people that we come to on the coast are the 

 Bastuli ; after whom, proceeding according to the order which 

 I shall follow, as we go inland, there are the Mentesani, the 

 Oretani, and the Carpetani on the Tagus, and next to 

 them the Vaccaei, the Vectones, and the Celtiberian Arevaci. 

 The towns nearest to the coast are Urci, and Barea^ included 

 in Baetica, the district of Mavitania, next to it Deitania, and 

 then Contestania, and the colony of Carthago Nova ; from 

 the Promontory of which, known as the Promontorium Sa- 

 turni^, to the city of Caesarea^ in Mauritania, the passage is 

 a distance of 187 miles. The remaining objects worthy of 

 mention on the coast are the river Tader^, and the free colony 

 of Ilici^, whence the Ilicitanian GiiLP" derives its name ; to 

 this colony the Icositani are subordinate. 



We nexthaveLucentum", holding Latian rights ; Dianium^^, 

 a tributary town; the river Sucre ^^, and in former times a 

 town of the same name, forming the frontier of Contestania. 



^ This was the most remote place of any consideration in Celtiberia, on 

 the west. Its ruins are still to be seen on the summit of a hill surrounded 

 with rocks, forming a natural wall between Corunna del Conde and Pen- 

 nalda de Castro. 



2 This was Asturica Augusta, the chief city of the nation of the Astures, 

 and situate on one of the tributaries of the Astura, now Esta. On its 

 site is situate the present Astorga : its ruins are very extensive. 



* Now Lugo. 



* Or Bracara Augusta, now Braga. Am ong the ruins of the ancient 

 city there are the remains of an aqueduct and amphitheatre. 



* Probably the present toAJsm of Vera near Muxacra. 



^ The " Promontory of Saturn," now Cabo de Palos. 



7 D' Anville takes this place to be the port of Vacxu* ; if so, the distance 

 from Cape Palos is exactly 170 miles. * Now Segura. 



9 The modem town of Elche was probably built from the ruins of 

 this place. ^^ Now called the Gulf of Ahcant. 



1^ With the Arabian El prefixed, this has formed the name of the 

 famous port of Ahcant. 



^ Now Denia, a thriving town. ^^ Jfow called the Xucar. - 



