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166 PLIITy's NATUEAl histoet. [Book IIL 
Next is the district of Edetania, witli the delightful expanse 
of a lake^ before it, and extending backward to Celtiberia. 
Valentia^, a colony, is situate three miles from the sea, after 
which comes the river Turium^, and Saguntum'* at the same 
distance, a town of Eoman citizens famous for its fidelity, 
the river Uduba'\ and the district of the Ilergaones®. The 
Iberus^, a river enriched by its commerce, takes its rise in 
the country of the Cantabri, not far from the town of Julio- 
briga^, and flows a distance of 450 miles ; 260 of which, from 
the town of Varia^ namely, it is available for the purposes of 
navigation. Erom this river the name of Iberia has been 
given by the Greeks to the whole of Spain. 
Next comes the district of Cossetania, the river Subi^°, 
and the colony of Tarraco, which was built by the Scipios as 
Carthage" was by the Carthaginians. Then the district of the 
Ilergetes, the town of Subiu*^^, and the river Kubricatum^^, 
beyond which begin the Laletani and the Indigetes^^. Be- 
hind these, in the order in which they will be mentioned, 
^ Now called Albufera. ^ ^i^q present city of Valencia. 
^ Or Tnria, now the Gruadalaviar. 
* Or Saguntus, famed for the fidelity of its inhabitants to the Roman 
cause : after a siege of nine months, rather than submit to the Carthaginians 
under Hannibal, they set fire to their town and perished in the flames, B.C. 
219. It was rebuilt eight years afterwards and made a Roman colony. The 
ruins of the ancient town, which was said to have been originally founded 
by Grreeks from Zacynthus, are stiU to be seen, and the ancient walls {muri 
veteres) give name to the present Murviedro, which is built on its site. 
^ Now the Murviedro, which flows past the city of that name and the 
town of Segorbe. 
^ Dertosa, the present Tortosa, is supposed to have been inhabited by 
them. 7 Now the Ebro. 
8 Hardouin places this on the site of the modern Fuente de Ivero. 
The Ebro takes its rise in the Yal de Yieso. 
^ According to D'Anville, the present Logrono. At present the Ebro 
only becomes navigable at Tudela, 216 miles from the sea. Other writers, 
however, take Yaria to be the present Yaltierra, near Tudela. - 
Or the Subur, now the Francoli. It flows into the sea at the port 
of Tarraco, now Tarragona. 
The more ancient commentators think that Carthago Yetus, or the 
colony of Old Cai-thage (now Carta la Yieja), is here alluded to, but more 
probably it is Carthago Nova that is meant. 
^ On the Subi, previously mentioned ; now called Yilla Nova. 
^3 Now the Llobregat. 
14 Xheir territory was situate around the present Grulf of Ampiirias. 
