360 pLurr's natueal histoet. [Book IT. 



free people, who are also known as the Cubi, and then the 

 Lemovices^, the Arverni^, a free people, and the Gabales'. 



Again, adjoining the province of Narbonensis are theEu- 

 teni*, the Cadurci^ the Nitiobriges^ and the Petrocori^, 

 separated by the river Tarnis from the Tolosani. The seas 

 around the coast are the Northern Ocean, flowing up to 

 the mouth of the Ehine, the Britannic Ocean between the 

 Ehine and the Se(j[uana, and, between, it and the Pyrenees, 

 the Gallic Ocean. There are many islands belonging to the 

 Veneti, which bear the name of " Veneticae^," as also in the 

 Aquitanic Gulf, that of Uliarus'. 



CHAP. 34. (20.) — ITEAEEE SPAIN, ITS COAST ALON& THE 

 GALLIC OCEAIS^. 



At the Promontory of the Pyrenees Spain begins, more 

 narrow, not only than Gaul, but even than itself*" in its 



departments of the Indre, the Cher, and the west of the department of 

 the Allier. Their chief town was Avaricum, now Bourges. 



^ They inhabited the district formerly known as the Limosin, now the 

 departments of the Creuse, the Haute Vienne, and the Corr^ze. Their 

 chief town was Augustoritum, afterwards Lemovices, now Limoges. 



2 They occupied the district formerly known as Auvergne, forming the 

 present department of the AUier, and the southern part of thePuy deD6me 

 and the Cantal. Augustonemetum was their chief town, now Clermont. 



3 Situate in the district formerly known as Gevaudan, now the de- 

 partment of La Loz&re. Their chief town stood on the site of the 

 present small town of Javoulx, four leagues from Mende. 



* They are supposed to have occupied the former district of Eouergue, 

 now known as the department of Aveyron. Their chief town was Sego- 

 dunxmi, afterwards Ruteni, now known as Rhodez. 



* Tlxey occupied the former district of Querci, the present department 

 of Lot and Lot-et-Garonne. Divona, afterwards Cadurci, now Cahors, 

 was their principal town. 



^ According to Ptolemy their town was Aginnimi, probably the mo- 

 dem Agen, in the present department of Lot-et-Garonne. " Antobroges," 

 however, is the more common reading. 



7 They occupied the district formerly known as Perigord, in the de- 

 partment of theDordogne j their town was Yesanna, afterwards Petrocori, 

 now Perigueux. 



* Ansart says they are about 200 in number, consisting of BeUe Isle, 

 Groaix, Houat, Hoedic, and others. Also probably Morbihan. 



^ The Isie of Oleron, the fountain-head of the maritime laws of Europe. 



^^ He means to say that it gradually increases in breadth after leaving 

 the nan*ow neck of the Pyrenees and approaching the confines of Lu- 

 sitania. 



