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Also, tlie islands called CicsB^ tlie famous city of Abo^ 
brica^, the river Minius^, four miles wide at its mouth, the 
Leuni, the Seurbi'*, and Augusta^, a town of the Bracari, 
above whom lies Gallaecia. We then come to the river 
Limia^, and the river Durius^, one of the largest in Spain, 
and which rises in the district of the Pelendones^, passes 
near Numantia, and through the Arevaci and the Vaccaei, 
dividing the Yettones from Asturia, the Glallseci from Lusi- 
tania, and separating the Turduli from the Bracari, The 
whole of the region here mentioned from the Pyrenees is 
full of mines of gold, silver, iron, and lead, both black and 
white ^ 
CHAP. 35. (21.) LTJSITAIS^IA. 
After passing the Durius, Lusitania^^ begins. We here have 
the ancient Turduli the Psesuri, the river Vaga^^, the town 
of Talabrica, the town and river of JEminium, the towns of 
Conimbrica^^, CoUippo^^, and Eburobritium^^. Apromontory^^ 
then advances into the sea in shape of a large horn ; by some 
it has been called Artabrum^^, by others the Grreat Promon- 
^ The modern Islas de Scyas or of Bayona. 
2 The town of Bayona, about six leagues from the mouth of the river 
Minho. 3 The Minho. 
^ They occupied the tract of country lying between the rivers, and 
known as Entre Douro y Minho. ^ Now Braga on the Cavado. 
^ The Lima. 7 The river Douro. ^ See B. iii. c. 3. 
^ Both lead, properly so called, and tin. 
In a great degree corresponding with modern Portugal, except that 
the latter includes the tract of country between the Minho and Douro. 
To distinguish them from the nation of the same name sprung 
from them, and occupying the Farther Spain. (B. iii. c. 3.) The Psesmi 
occupied the site of the present towns of Lamego and Arouca. 
^2 The modern Youga, which runs below the town of Aveiro, raised 
from the rmns of ancient Talabrica. 
^3 Agueda, which, according to Hardouin, is the name of both the 
river and the town. Coimbra, formerly Condeja la Veja. 
1^ Leiria is supposed to occupy its site. 
According to Hardouin, the modern Ebora de Alcobaza, ten leagues 
from Leiria. 
17 The modern Cabo de la Eoca, seven leagues from Lisbon. 
1^ Phny, in 0. 34, places the Arrotrebse, belonging to the Con- 
ventus of Lucus Augusti, about the Promontorium Celticum, which, if not 
the same as the Nerium (or Cape Einisterre) of the gthers, is evidently 
in its immediate neighbourhood j but he confuses the whole matter by 
