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free people, wto are also known as tlie Cubi, and tlien tlie 
Lemovices\ the Arverni^, a free people, and the Gabales^. 
Again, adjoining the province of Narbonensis are theEu- 
teni'*, the Cadurci^, the Mtiobriges^, and the Petroeori^, 
separated by the river Tarnis from the Tolosani. The seas 
around the coast are the Northern Ocean, flowing np to 
the mouth of the Ehine, the Britannic Ocean between the 
Ehine and the Seq[uana, and, between it and the Pyrenees, 
the Grallic Ocean. There are many islands belonging to the 
Veneti, which bear the name of " Veneticse^," as also in the 
Aquitanic Gulf, that of Uliarus^. 
CHAP. 34. (20.) — MABER SPAIIf, ITS COAST ALOKO- THE 
GALLIC OCEAIT. 
At the Promontory of the Pyrenees Spain begins, more 
narrow, not only than Graul, but even than itself in its 
departments of the Indre, the Cher, and the west of the department of 
the Alher. Their chief town was Avaricum, now Bom'ges. 
^ They inhabited the district formerly known as the Limosin, now the 
departments of the Crense, the Haute Yienne, and the Correze. Their 
chief town was Augnstoritum, afterwards Lemovices, now Limoges. 
2 They occupied the district formerly known as Auvergne, forming the 
present department of the AUier, and the southern part of thePuy deDome 
and the Cantal. Augustonemetum was their chief town, now Clermont. 
2 Situate in the district formerly known as G-evaudan, now the de- 
partment of La Lozere. Their chief town stood on the site of the 
present small town of Javoulx, four leagues from Mende. 
^ They are supposed to have occupied the former district of E-ouergue, 
now known as the department of Aveyron. Their chief town was Sego- 
dunum, afterwards Ruteni, now known as Rhodez. 
^ They occupied the former district of Querci, the present department 
of Lot and Lot-et-Graronne. Divona, afterwards Cadurci, now Cahors, 
was their principal town. 
^ According to Ptolemy their town was Aginnum, probably the mo- 
dern Agen, in the present department of Lot-et -Graronne. " Antobroges," 
however, is the more common reading. 
7 They occupied the district formerly known as Perigord, in the de- 
partment of theDordogne ; their town was Yesanna, afterwards Petrocori, 
now Perigueux. 
^ Ansart says they are about 200 in number, consisting of Belle Isle, 
G-roaix, Houat, Hoedic, and others. Also probably Morbihan. 
^ The Isle of Oleron, the fountain-head of the maritime laws of Europe. 
He means to say that it gradually increases in breadth after leaving 
the narrow neck of the Pyrenees and approaching the confines of Lu- 
sitania. 
