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Clunia^ of Asturica^, of Lucus^, and of the Bracari^. To these 
are to be added the islands, which will be described on 
another occasion, as also 293 states which are dependent on 
others; besides which the province contains 179 towns. Of 
these, twelve are colonies, thirteen, towns with the rights of 
Eoman citizens, eighteen with the old Latian rights, one 
confederate, and 135 tributary. 
The first people that we come to on the coast are the 
Bastuli ; after whom, proceeding according to the order which 
I shall follow, as we go inland, there are the Mentesani, the 
Oretani, and the Carpetani on the Tagus, and next to 
them the Vaccsei, the Vectones, and the Celtiberian Arevaci. 
The towns nearest to the coast are TJrci, and Barea^ included 
in Baetica, the district of Mavitania, next to it Deitania, and 
then Contestania, and the colony of Carthago !N"ova ; from 
the Promontory of which, known as the Promontorium Sa- 
tumi^, to the city of Csesarea^ in Mauritania, the passage is 
a distance of 187 miles. The remaining objects worthy of 
mention on the coast are the river Tader^, and the free colony 
of Ilici^, whence the Ilicitanian GuIP^ derives its name ; to 
this colony the Icositani are subordinate. 
We next have Lucentum",holding Latian rights ; Dianium^^, 
a tributary town ; the river Sucre and in former times a 
town of the same name, forming the frontier of Contestania. 
* This was the most remote place of any consideration in Celtiberia, on 
the west. Its ruins are still to be seen on the summit of a hill surrounded 
with rocks, forming a natural wall between Corunna del Conde and Pen- 
nalda de Castro. 
2 This was Asturica Augusta, the chief city of the nation of the Astures, 
and situate on one of the tributaries of the Astura, now Esta. On its 
site is situate the present Astorga : its ruias are very extensive. 
3 Now Lugo. 
Or Bracara Augusta, now Braga. Among the ruins of the ancient 
city there are the remains of an aqueduct and amphitheatre. 
* Probably the present town of Vera near Muxacra. 
^ The " Promontory of Saturn," now Cabo de Palos. 
7 D'AnviUe takes this place to be the port of Yacur ; if so, the distance 
from Cape Palos is exactly 170 miles. ^ Now Segura. 
9 The modem town of Elche was probably bmlt from the ruins of 
this place. Now called the Grulf of Alicant. 
^1 With the Arabian HI prefixed, this has formed the name of the 
famous port of AHcant. 
Now Denia, a thriving town. j^qw called the Xucar. 
