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Also, the islands called CicsB*, the famous city of Abo- 

 brioa*, the river Minius^, four miles wide at its mouth, the 

 Leuni, the Seurbi*, and Augusta*, a town of the Bracari, 

 above whom lies Gallaecia. We then come to the river 

 Limia^, and the river Durius', one of the largest in Spain, 

 and which rises in the district of the Pelendones^, passes 

 near Numantia, and through the Arevaci and the Vaccaei, 

 dividing the Vettones from Asturia, the Gallaeci from Lusi- 

 tania, and separating the Turduli from the Bracari. The 

 whole of the region here mentioned from the Pyrenees is 

 full of mines of gold, silver, iron, and lead, both black and 

 white*. 



CHAP. 35. (21.) — LUSITAlflA. 



After passing the Durius, Lusitania" begins. "We here have 

 the ancient Turduli^^ the Paesuri, the river Vaga^^, the town 

 of Talabrica, the town and river '^ of jEmii^um, the towns of 

 Conimbrica", Collippo^*, and Eburobritium'®. A promontory^'' 

 then advances into the sea in shape of a large horn ; by some 

 it has been called Artabrum^', by others the Great Promon- 



* The modem Islas de Scyas or of Bayona, 



2 The town of Bayona, about six leagues from the mouth of the river 

 Minho. * The Minho. 



* They occupied the tract of country lying between the rivers, and 

 known as Entre Douro y Minho. * Now Braga on the Cavado. 



« The Lima. 7 The river Douro. ^ Qqq b. iii. c. 3. 



' Both lead, properiy so called, and tin. 



^" In a great degree corresponding with modem Portugal, except that 

 the latter includes the tract of country between the Minho and Douro. 



" To distinguish them from the nation of the same name sprung 

 from them, and occupying the Farther Spain. (B. iii, c. 3.) The Psesuri 

 occupied the site of the present towns of Lamego and Arouca. 



^ The modem Vouga, which runs below the town of Aveiro, raised 

 from the ruins of ancient Talabrica. 



^ ^3 ^gueda, which, according to Hardouin, is the name of both the 

 river and the town. *■* Coimbra, formerly Condeja la Yeja. 



^^ Leiria is supposed to occupy its site. 



^^ According to Hardouin, the modem Ebora de Alcobaza, ten leagues 

 from Leiria. 



^7 The modem Cabo de la Eoca, seven leagues from Lisbon. 



^8 Pliny, in C. 34, places the Arrotrebse, belonging to the Con- 

 ventus of Lucus Augusti, about the Promontorium Celticum, which, if not 

 the same as the Nerium (or Cape Finisterre) of the others, is evidently 

 in its immediate neighbourhood j but he confuses the whole matter by 



