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rus\ all of wliich originate in the overflow of tlie waters in 
tlie Philistinian Canal, swollen by tlie streams of tlie Atesis, 
descending from the Tridentine Alps, and of the Togisonus^, 
flowing from the territory of the Patavini. A portion of them 
also forms the adjoining port of Brnndulum^, in the same 
manner as Edron^ is formed by the two rivers Meduacus and 
the Ciodian Canal. With the waters of these streams the 
Padus unites, and with them discharges itself into the sea, 
forming, according to most writers, between the Alps and 
the sea-shore a triangular figure, 2000 stadia in circum- 
ference, not unlike the Delta formed by the Nile in Egypt. 
I feel somewhat ashamed to have to borrow from the Greeks 
any statement in reference to Italy ; Metrodorus of Scepsos, 
however, informs us that this river has obtained its name of 
Padus from the fact, that about its source there are great 
numbers of pine-trees, which in the Gallic language are 
called " padi." In the tongue of the Ligurians this river is 
called "Bodincus," which signifies "the bottomless." This 
derivation is in some measure supported by the fact that 
near this river there is the town of Industrial, of which the 
ancient name was Bodincomagum, and where the river be- 
gins to be of greater depth than in other parts. 
CHAP. 21. (17.) — THE ELEVENTH BEGIOK OE ITALY J ITALIA 
TEAi^SPADAlS^A. 
Erom the river Padus the eleventh region receives its 
name of Transpadana ; to which, situate as it is wholly in 
the interior, the river, by its bounteous channel, conveys 
the gifts of all the seas. The towns are Vibi Eorum^ and 
ants of the spot. They are now called the Bocca della Grnoca, the 
Bocca della Scovetta, the Busa delle Tole, the Sbocco delL'Asinmo, &c. 
The Ostia Carbonaria and the Foss^ Piiilistinse were to the north of the 
ones previously mentioned. 
^ He seems to confoimd the Fosses of Philistina with the Tartarus 
(now Tartaro) . That river however connected the Fosses of Phihstma 
with the Athesis, now the Adige. 
^ Now the Bacchighone. ^ The modern Brondolo. 
* Now Chioggia, formed by the rivers Brenta and Brentella. Hardouin 
thinks the Clochan Canal to be the same as the modern Fossa Paltana. 
^ NowMonteu di Po, below Chevasso, mentioned in the 7th Chapter, 
^ This place is supposed to have been situate in the vicinity of the 
