the Loire to te ponents ; and w as p 
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nutes and Senones, in the’ middle of Ifle de France :—the 
Aureliani, S. of the Carnutes and W, of the Senones, ina 
diftriGt of Orleanois, a by the Loire :—the Meldi, 
in the diocefe of Meaux :—and the Trricaffes, Tricaffini, or 
'Treci, in South Cian agne. 
Aquitania Prima comprehended feveral inland modern pro- 
vinces, viz. eae arche, Auvergne, Limofin, Quercy, 
Rouergue, and a portion of "Lang uedoc 3 and was inhabited 
by the Bitucges, in Berti, to the weitward of the Loire ; 
—the Arverni, a powerful tribe in Auvergne, extending in 
the time of Strabo from Marfeilles to the Pyrenees, and from 
the ocean to the Rhine; but their territory is now repre- 
fented by the diocefes of Clermont io Sent 
Lemovici, in Lim —the Cadurci, in Ciee on the 
river Oltis or Olt, “eae din the middle age Cadurci- 
um teni, in Rouergue :—and the Gabali and 
Vellavi, or os S. of the Arverni, in the weftern part 
of Languedo 
Aguitan Ja ext d fouthward along the coat fro 
sl by the Bituriges 
Vibifci, near the mouth of the Garonne in Bourdelois :—the 
eee ‘in Medoc, a fmall dittrit een the lower part 
he 
f the Garonne and the ocean :— etrocorii, in Peri- 
a rd, to the right of the lower part of the Garonne :—the 
obroges, in a territory watered by the 
> 
tones, river Loire, in Poitou :— 
the Agefinates, an eagiee bie tribe, whofe name may be 
recognized in Aifenai, an archdeaconry in the diocefe of Lu- 
~ con 
ovenipopulana, the fouth-weft corner. of France, be- 
mean the river Garonne and the Pyrenean mountains, was 
inhabited by the Elafates, who — the N.W. dittrict of 
rmagnac :—the Aufei, in magnac Chiberris, now Auc 
on the river Ger, | which rans northward, nd falls into ihe 
Garonne above Agen :—the Sotiates, in Sos, a diftridt of 
Condomois :—the tee lice N. of the Aufci, on the left 
hand of the Garonne : :—the Vafates, 1 in the diocefe of Bazas: 
of Cominge :— 
Conferans, on the border. of ea oc. 
Gallia Belgica, or Belgic Cas was bounded, according 
to the divifion of Cafar, on the W. by the Seine, 
Ye. by the Rhine, on the N. by the mecca - = un- 
o this Peas Seat ni and 
Gallia ronan “a 
from ig as a part from the 
e fettlements of the Bellovaci, Atrebates, 
ani, and eal to the fea-coaft. Gallia Belgica 
et 
_was divided into Prima and Secunda, Germania Prima and 
Secunda,. and Maxima Sequanorum. 
Belgica Prima comprehended the greater part of Loraine 
3 ae was inha- 
a 
annot be traced beyond their fettlements in Belgica Prima. 
e mi Pagus eae was of the fame extent 
S. of the 
with the diocefe of Metz :—the n Loraine, 
.Mediomatrices, on the Mofelle, eee a Mons Vogelus, now © 
et. XV 
Mont de Vauge :—and the Verodunentes in Loraine, N. of 
fe 
the Leuci, on the river Mofa, etife. 
Belgica Secunda was he beeen the river Menfe a 
the Britifh channel ; and was occupied e Remi, i 
of Picardy :—the Bellovaci, a nu- 
and oe erful tbe, whofe territories extended be- 
a . diocefe of ‘Beauvais es 
bank of the Oife, aopeire tot 
planted near the bank of the ae. or Some, w 
of t 
diftinguifhed rark among the Belgie tribes :—the Atrebates 
5 & § ies Eos 
f the Ambiani, in Artois :—the Morini, in a maritime 
territory, which comprehends the diocefes of Boulogne and 
St. Omer :—an es Ner Su a brave and powerful tribe, in 
the ancient diocefe of Tournay, which included thofe of 
Gand (Ghent) s Bruges, and reached to the fea-coatt. 
Maxima Sequanorum included Franche Comté and a great 
part of Switzerland. It was occupied by the ela the 
eae om the eed aci; which fee ref{pectively 
Ger a Prima, or Superior, was a tract on ae left bank 
of the R eae ie called Alface ; an i was iy te by the 
Triboci, who occupied the diocefe of S$ 
Nemetes, fituated between ~ Vangiones 
the bifhopric of Spire, in Low r Alface :—the Ven eones 
and ae N. of the Roweas in i palatinate of the 
hin 
gne :—the Gugerni, a Dy ti 
of - Sicambri eftablifhed by “Auguttus on this fide of the 
hine, in a territory formerly occupied by the Metayi be- 
aa een ie Ubii and Batavi, in the {mall diftricts of Gueldres 
] —the E e 
» who, after being exterminated, 
e Tungri:— Sunici, 1 
Segni, and Paemani, in confiderable tribes, which were 
cantoned along the fkirts of Arduenna :—the Men 
occupied a territory fometimes called Pagus” Monapifcus in 
Brabant oxandri, ss were planted in the S. 
ata of Br abant ree a eldt and the Meufe :—and 
the Batavi, a branch of t “atti who, being a 
their country, fettled on fs ee ity of the coait of Gau 
and in an aor med by two branches of the Rhine and a2 
fea. See B 
It is as difficult to diftinguifh the various tribes 
with which Gaul was people efar, of 
acitus, or of a emy. Modern nations are fixed and per- 
manent focietic tribes of Germany and Gaul were 
aaapnel ffcitions of foldiexs and fav vages : fo that the 
fam ory ofte pian its inhabitants in the tide of 
ame oo uniting in 
coat ad igen 
title on their 
a plan of defence or invafion, befto wed a 
new confederacy. 
cated its own name to 
ixed muletude, The difti nétions of 
the ferocious hae were perpetually varied by oe 
and confounded by the aftonifhed ae atl of the Roman en 
ire. Gibbon’s Hift. Rom. Emp. 
The flowing Tab, extracted fon Play fair’ $ Geography, 
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