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rivers are the Tecum and the Yemodubrum^ The to'WTia 

 are IHiberis'^ the scanty remains of what was formerly a great 

 city, and Euscino^, a town with Latian rights. "We then 

 come to the river Atax*, which flows from the Pyrenees, and 

 passes through the Rubrensian Lake*, the town of Narbo 

 Martins, a colony of the tenth legion, twelve miles distant 

 from the sea, and the rivers Arauris^ and Liria^. The towns 

 are otherwise but few in number, in consequence of the 

 niunerous lakes' which skirt the sea-shore. We have Aga- 

 tha", formerly belonging to the Massilians, and the district of 

 the Volcae Tectosages*" ; and there is the spot where Ehoda", 

 a Rhodian colony, formerly stood, from which the river takes 

 its name of Ehodanus*^ ; a stream by far the most fertilizing 

 of any in either of the Gallias. Descending from the Alps 

 and rushing through lake Lemanus", it carries along with it 

 the sluggish Arar**, as well as the torrents of the Isara and 

 the Druentia", no less rapid than itself. Its two smaller 

 mouths are called Libica , one being the Spanish, and the 



^ Probably the Tech, and the Verdouble, which falls into the Gly. 



^ Probably the present Elne, on the Tech. 



^ The present Castel Roussillon. * The Aude of the present day. 



* The bodies of water now called Etangs de Bages et de Sigean. 



* Now the Herault. 



' Now called the Lez, near the city of MontpeUier. 



® Now called Etangs de Leucate, de Sigean, de Gruissan, de Vendres, 

 de Thau, de Maguelonne, de Perols, de Mauguio, du Bepausset ; Marais 

 d'Escamandre, de Lemiitane et de la Souteyrane, and numerous others. 



" Now the town of Agde. Strabo also informs us that this place was 

 founded by the Massilians. 



^* This people seems to have inhabited the eastern parts of the depart- 

 ments of r Arriege and the Haute Gkronne, that of Aude, the south of 

 that of Tarn, and of that of Herault, except the arrondissement of Mont- 

 peUier. 



" Dalechamp takes this to be Foz les Martigues ; but the locaHty is 

 doubtful. Most probably this is the same place that is mentioned by 

 Strabo as Ehoe, in conjunction with the town of Agathe or Agde, and 

 the Rodanusia of Stephen of Byzantium, who places it in the district of 

 Massiha or Marseilles. 



12 Now the Rhone. ^ Now the Lake of Gkmeva. 



1'* The modem Saone. ^^ j^ow the rivers Is^re and Durance. 



1^ Most probably from Libici, a town in the south of Gaul, of which 

 there are coins in existence, but nothing else seems to be known. At 

 the present day there are foiir mouths of the Rhone, the most westerly 

 of which is caJled the " Dead" Rhone ; the next the " Lesser" Rhone ; 

 the third the " Old " Rhone ; and the fourth simply the Rhone. D'An- 



