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other parts, as we have previously mentioned*, seeing to what 

 an immense extent it is here hemmed in by the ocean on the 

 one side, and by the Iberian Sea on the other. A chain of 

 the Pyrenees, extending from due east to south-west^, divides 

 Spain into two parts, the smaller one to the north, the 

 larger to the south. The first coast that presents itself is 

 that of the Nearer Spain, otherwise called Tarraconensis. 

 On leaving the Pyrenees and proceeding along the coast, we 

 meet with the forest ranges of the Vascones^, Olarso*, the 

 towns of the Varduli*, the Morosgi", Menosca', Vesperies*, 

 and the Port of Amanus', where now stands the colony of 

 Plaviobriga. We then come to the district of the nine 

 states of the Cantabri *°, the river Sauga", and the Port of 

 Victoria of the Juliobrigenses'^, from which place the sources 

 of the Iberus'^ are distant forty miles. We next come to 

 the Port of Blendium^^, the Orgenomesci", a people of the 

 Cantabri, Yereasueca'* their port, the Country of the As- 



* B. iii. c. 3. * From Ruscino to Gbdes. 

 8 In the province now known as Guipuzcoa. 



* Supposed to be the present Cabo do la Higuera. 



* Probably inhabiting the eastern part of the provinces of Biscay and 

 Alava, the eastern portion of Navarre, and, perhaps, a part of the pro- 

 vince of Guipuzcoa. • According to Hardouin the 

 modem San Sebastian occupies the site of their town. 



^ On the same site as the modem Bermeo, according to Mannert. 

 Hardouin thinks, however, and with greater probabiUty, that it was 

 situate at the mouth of the river Orio. 



^ D'Anville considers this to be the site of the city of Bermeo. 



' Poinsinet thinks that this is Flavio in Bilbao, D'Anville calls it 

 Portugalette, and Mannert thinks that it is the same as Santander, with 

 which opinion Ansart agrees. 



^^ According to Ptolemy, the Cantabri possessed the western part of 

 the province of La Montana, and the northern parts of the provinces of 

 Palencia and Toro. 



^^ Most probably the present Eio de Suanc^s, by Mannert called the Saya, 

 into which the Besanga flows. Hardouin however calls it the Nervio. 



^2 Ansart suggests that this is the modem San Vicente de la Barquera. 

 If the river Sauga is the same with the Suanc^, this cannot be the port of 

 Santander, as has been suggested. ^3 Qr Ebro. 



^* According to Ansart, this is either the modern Ensenada de BaUota 

 or else the Puerta de P6. 



^^ According to Ansart, the Orgenomesci occupied the same territory 

 which Ptolemy has assigned to the Cantabri in general. See Note ^^ above. 



IS Hardouin takes this to be YiUaviciosa. Ansart thinks that Eia 

 de Oella occupies its site. 



