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other parts, as we have preyiously mentioned^ seeing to what 
an immense extent it is here hemmed in by the ocean on the 
one side, and by the Iberian Sea on the other. A chain of 
the Pyrenees, extending from due east to south-west^, divides 
Spain into two parts, the smaller one to the north, the 
larger to the south. The first coast that presents itself is 
that of the Nearer Spain, otherwise called Tarraconensis. 
On leaving the Pyrenees and proceeding along the coast, we 
meet with the forest ranges of the Vascones^, Olarso"*, the 
towns of the Yarduli^, the Morosgi^, Menosca^, Yesperies^, 
and the Port of Amanus^, where now stands the colony of 
Plaviobriga. We then come to the district of the nine 
states of the Cantabri^^, the river Sauga^\ and the Port of 
Victoria of the Juliobrigenses^^, from which place the sources 
of the Iberus^^ are distant forty miles. We next com^e to 
the Port of Blendium^^, the Orgenomesci^'^ a people of the 
Cantabri, Vereasueca^^ their port, the country of the As- 
^ B. iii. c. 3. 2 J^pom Ruscino to Grades. 
3 In the province now known as Griiipuzcoa. 
Supposed to be the present Cabo do la Higuera. 
^ Probably inhabiting the eastern part of the provinces of Biscay and 
Alava, the eastern portion of Navarre, and, perhaps, a part of the pro- 
vince of Guipuzcoa. ® According to Hardouin the 
modern San Sebastian occupies the site of then' town. 
7 On the same site as the modem Bermeo, according to Mannert. 
Hardouin thinks, however, and with greater probabihty, that it was 
situate at the mouth of the river Orio. 
^ D'Anville considers this to be the site of the city of Bermeo. 
^ Poinsinet thinks that this is Flavio in Bilbao, D'Anville calls it 
Portugalette, and Mannert thinks that it is the same as Santander, with 
which opinion Ansart agrees. 
According to Ptolemy, the Cantabri possessed the western part of 
the province of La Montana, and the northern parts of the provinces of 
Palencia and Toro. 
Most probably the present Rio de S nances, by Mannert called the Saya, 
into which the Besanga flows. Hardouin however calls it the Nervio. 
^2 Ansart suggests that this is the modern San Yicente de la Barquera. 
H the river Sauga is the same with the Suances, this cannot be the port of 
Santander, as has been suggested. Or Ebro. 
According to Ansart, this is either the modern Ensenada de Ballota 
or else the Puerta de P6. 
According to Ansart, the Orgenomesci occupied the same territory 
whichPtolemy has assigned to the Cantabri in general. See Note above. 
1^ Hardouin takes this to be Yillaviciosa. Ansart tliinks that Eia 
de Cella occupies its site. 
