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which always retain their first name, though the waters which run from 

 it may be greatly augmented in their course, and very diiferent from 

 that which they received from their source. Let us judge them by that 

 of the drought of which we have just spoken ; without doubt it was 

 neither so long nor so great as our historians say." 



Then: Mariana proceeds to inform us, that at the cessation of the 

 great drought, the Celts from Gaul and Lusitania poured into Spain/^'' 



Colmenar, in the " Annales D'Espagne et du Portugal" (4to, Am- 

 ster., 1741), in reference to Spanish migrations and colonization, says: — 

 "The opinion most likely to be true (of the many opinions expressed on 

 this subject of Spanish colonization) is that the Celtes, descended from 

 Japhet, eldest son of ^^"oah, peopled the Gauls, the British Isles, and 

 Spain about 200 years after the Deluge. f . . . 



" History informs us that, 200 years before Jesus Christ, the Eis- 

 cayans plied on the sea, in vessels made of the trunks of trees hollowed 

 and covered with leather, and with a fleet thus constructed they went 

 to Hibernia, now called Ireland, and took possession of it.";}: 



Gallicia in ancient times, as I have before observed, was included in 

 the territory of Spain. That part of ancient Spain, formerly as well as 

 at present, known as Estramadura, was of old called Lusitania, as we 

 are informed in the Portaguese work of Eray Bernardo de Brito, of the 

 Eoyal Monastery of Alcobaca, " Geographia Antiqua de Lusitania" 

 (4to, Lisboa, 1689). This name was given to the country (one of the 

 three provinces into which the Romans divided it), the author tells us, 

 on the authority of Pliny, lib. iii., cap. xi., and M. Yarro, in honour of 

 Luso, son of Bacchus, and one of his associates, who came with the 

 latter into this region on the western coast of Spain. And then, as 

 usual with all the annals of the time, Portuguese as well as Spanish, 

 the fictions of Annius of Yiterbo and the fabulous Berosus are dragged 

 into early history. " Elorian D'Ocampo, following Berosus," says Eray 

 Brito, " attributes the name Lusitania to the King Lusa, who flourished 

 long pre"^dously to Bacchus. And within the ancient limits of this pro- 

 vince of Lusitanos in the time of Strabo, we are told by Brito, was the 

 city of Braganza, and also the region which is now called Gallicia. "§ 



And elsewhere it is asserted that from two ports on its shores, now 

 named Corunna and Yigo, Spanish intercourse with England and Ire- 

 land was chiefly carried on. 



The arch literary impostor and- forger of historical relations, Annius 

 of Yiterbo, in his fictitious Berosus, makes Corunna the theatre of the 

 grandest of the exploits of the Phoenician Hercules against the fabulous 

 Geriones, the gigantic tyrants of Gallicia. In the immediate vicinity 

 of Corunna, we are told by Don Servando Obispo de Orense, on the 

 authority of the fictitious Berosus, Hercules off^ered battle to the 

 Geriones, and slaughtered them in that engagement. It was in memory 



* Mariana, " Histoire General D'Espagne," torn, i., pp. 51, 53, 54. 



f Colmenar, torn, ii., p. 55. J lb., p. 51. 



§ " Brito Geogr. Lusitan," p. 561. 



