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pliny's natueal histobt. 
[Book lY. 
tains the Lexovii\ the Vellocasses^, tlie Galeti^, the Yeneti^, 
the Abrincatui^, the Ossismi^, and the celebrated river Lige- 
ris'^, as also a most reitiarkable peninsula, which extends into 
the ocean at the extremity^ of the territory of the Ossismi, 
the circumference of which is 625 ^ miles, and its breadth at 
the neck 125^'^. Beyond this are the Nannetes^\ and in the 
interior are the JEdui a federal people, the Carnuti a federal 
people, the Boii^"^, the Senones^^, the Aulerci, both those sur- 
named Eburovices^^ and those called Cenomanni^'', the 
Meldi^^, a free people, the Parisii^^, the Tricasses^^, the An- 
1 Dwelling in the west of the department of Calvados, and the east of 
the department of the Enre. From them Lisieux takes its name. 
2 They occupied the department of the Lower Seine. 
^ They are supposed to have dwelt in the vicinity of Lillebonne, in 
the department of the Lower Seine. 
< They gave name to the town of Yannes in the department of Morbihan. 
5 From them the city of Avranches, in the department of La Manche, 
derives its name. 
^ They occupied the modern department of Finisterre. ^ The Loire. 
3 This spot is placed by D' Anville near the modern city of Saint Brieuc. 
He refers here to the peninsula of Brittany, which ends in Finisterre. 
^ Ansart remarks that the circuit of the peninsula from Saint Brieuc 
to the mouth of the river Yilaine is only 450 miles, but that if taken from 
the city of Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, it is 650. 
10 Ansart states that from Avranches to the mouth of the Loire, in a 
straight line, is twenty miles less than the distance here given by Phny. 
11 Inhabitants of the department of the Lower Loire or Loire Inferieure. 
12 This extensive people inhabited the present departments of the Saone 
et Loire, Allier, Nievre, Rhone nord, and Loire nord. Autun and Chalons- 
sur-Marne stand on the site of their ancient towns. 
12 They inhabited the departments of the Eure et Loire, and portions 
of those of the Seine et Oise, of the Loire et Cher, and of the Loiret. 
Chartres occupies the site of their town. 
1^ They occupied a part of the department of the Allier. Moulins stands 
on the site of then' chief town. 
1^ Sens, in the department of the Yonne, stands on the site of theu' 
chief town. 
16 r£Y^Q chief town of the Aulerci Eburo vices was on the site of the 
present Pas sy-sur- Eure, called by the inhabitants Old Evreux, in the 
department of the Eure. 
17 They dwelt in the vicinity of the city of Le Mans, in the department 
of the Sarthe. 
1^ Meaux, in the department of the Seine et Marne, denotes the site of 
their principal town. i^ Paris, anciently Lutetia, denotes their locahty. 
^ The city of Troyes, in the department of the Aube, denotes their 
locality. 
