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LVIII. 
Thessaly from famous Corinth, northward to Macedonia, 
Land wherein are many green spears ;1 land of good horsemanship. 
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Macedonia, and Dalmatia the firm, are around the point of the Adriatic; 
Istria from Dalmatia to the Rhine, southward to the lofty conspicuous Alps. 
Lx. 
Italy south-east is its length: the Alps [are] between it and Gaul ; 
The murmuring sea surrounds it from Liguria to Liburnia. 
LXI. 
Rome with its preparations ready, the politic city of the Romans, 
Her territories reach the lively sea on every side around. 
LXII. 
Three streams issue from the Alps, westward across Europe they appear; 
The river Rhine is observed in the north-west; the river Loire and river Rhone. 
LXIII. 
In the east, between Loire and Rhine, is Gallia Narbonensis ; 
In the west between them, side by side, are Lugdunum and Belgica. 
LXIV. 
Aquitania, great and proud, from the Loire to the Torrian Sea ; 
To the river Rhone in the mountain ; [and] south-west to the Pyrenees. 
LXV. 
Spain, westward from the Pyrenees; on the north it lies beside the Torrian Sea; 
The sea is always around it except on the east by Gallia. 
LXVI. 
Tn it are territories known to fame, Gallecia, Beetica, Tingitana, 
Tarraconensis the renowned, Lusitania and the territory of Carthagena. 
Dana’s Mineralogy, p. 371. It was also manufactured into cloth by the ancients, 
who were acquainted with its incombustibility. It is said that Charlemagne had 
tablecloth of this kind, which he used to have thrown into the fire after dinner for 
the astonishment of his guests. It is here said to be found in Arcadia, but Pau- 
sanias says the only place in Greece where it occurred was Elis, which, however, 
was on the borders of Arcadia. 
4 Spears.—Apparently an allusion to the Macedonian phalanx. 
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