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tains the Lexovii*, the Yellocasses^, the Galeti', the Yeneti^, 

 the Abrincatui*, the Ossismi®, and the celebrated river Lige- 

 ris^, as also a most remarkable peninsula, which extends into 

 the ocean at the extremity^ of the territory of the Ossismi, 

 the circumference of which is 625^ miles, and its breadth at 

 the neck 125^*?. Beyond this are the Naunetes'\ and in the 

 interior are the ^dui^^, a federal people, the Carnuti'^, a federal 

 people, the Boii^^ the Senones'', the Aulerci, both those sur- 

 named Eburo vices ^^ and those called Cenomanni'^, the 

 Meldi^^, a free people, the Parisii*^, the Tricasses^", the An- 



I Dwelling in the west of the department of Calvados, and the east of 

 the department of the Eure. From them Lisieux takes its name. 



' They occupied the department of the Lower Seine. 

 ' They are supposed to have dwelt in the vicinity of Lillebonne, in 

 the department of the Lower Seine. 



* They gave name to the town of Vannes in the department of Morbihan. 



* From them the city of Avranches, in the department of La Manche, 

 derives its name. 



* They occupied the modem department of Finisterre. ^ The Loire. 



8 This spot is placed by D' Anville near the modem city of Saint Brieuc. 

 He refers here to the peninsula of Brittany, which ends in Finisterre. 



9 Ansart remarks that the circuit of the peninsula from Saint Brieuc 

 to the mouth of the river Vilaine is only 450 miles, but that if taken from 

 the city of Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, it is 650. 



^° Ansart states that from Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, in a 

 straight line, is twenty miles less than the distance here given by Pliny. 



II Inhabitants of the department of the Lower Loire or Loire Inferieure. 



12 This extensive people inhabited the present departments of the Saone 

 et Loire, AUier, Nievre, Rhone nord, and Loire nord. Autun and Chalons- 

 sxu'-Mame stand on the site of their ancient towns. 



13 They inhabited the departments of the Eure et Loire, and portions 

 of those of the Seine et Oise, of the Loire et Cher, and of the Loiret. 

 Chartres occupies the site of their town. 



1'* They occupied a part of the department of the AUier. Moulins stands 

 on the site of their chief town. 



15 Sens, in the department of the Yonne, stands on the site of their 

 chief town. 



1^ The chief town of the Atderci Eburo vices was on the site of the 

 present Passy-sur-Eure, called by the inhabitants Old Evreux, in the 

 department of the Eure. 



1' They dwelt in the vicinity of the city of Le Mans, in the department 

 of the Sarthe. 



18 Meaux, in the department of the Seine et Mame, denotes the site of 

 their principal town. i' Paris, anciently Lutetia, denotes their locaHty. 



* The city of Troyes, in the department of the Aube, denotes tht'ir 

 locality. 



