Cliap. 36.] ACCOOTT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 367 
cienses\ the Mirobrigenses, sumamed^ Celtic!, the Medu- 
brigenses^, surnamed Plumbarii, the Ocelenses^ or Lanci- 
enses, the Turduli, also called Barduli, and the Tapori. 
Agrippa states, that Lusitania, with Asturia and Gallsecia, 
is 540 miles in length, and 536 in breadth. The pro- 
vinces of Spain, measured from the two extreme^ promontories 
of the Pyrenees, along the sea-line of the entire coast, are 
thought to be 3922 miles in circumference; while some 
writers make them to be but 2600. 
CHAP. 36. — THE ISLA^iTDS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 
Opposite to Celtiberia are a number of islands, by the 
Greeks called Cassiterides^,in consequence of their abounding 
in tin : and, facing the Promontory^ of the Arrotrebse, are 
the six Islands of the G-ods, which some persons have 
called the Fortunate Islands^. At the very commencement 
^ Mannert is of opinion that the city of Lancia was situate in the 
north of Lusitania, on the river Durius, or Douro, near the modern 
Zamora. 
2 To distinguish them from the Mirobrigenses, surnamed Turduli, 
mentioned in B. iii. c. 3. Some writers think that this Mirobriga is the 
present Ciudad Bodrigo ; but Ambrose Morales takes it to be the place 
called Malabriga, in the vicinity of that city. 
3 The name of Medubriga was afterwards Aramenha, of which Har- 
douin says the ruins only were to be seen. They were probably called 
JPlumharii, from lead mines in theu' vicinity. 
^ According to Hardouin, Ocelum was in the vicinity of the modem 
Capara. 
^ From Cape de Creuz to the Promontory between the cities of Fon- 
tarabia and Saint Sebastian. 
^ From the Grreek Ka^alrepos^ " tin." It is generally supposed that the 
*^ Tin Islands" were the Scilly Isles, in the vicinity of Cornwall. At the 
same time the Grreek and Roman geographers, borrowing their knowledge 
from the accounts probably of the Phoenician merchants, seem to have had 
a very indistinct notion of their precise locality, and to have thought them 
to be nearer to Spain than to Britain. Thus we find Strabo, in B. iii., 
saying, that " the Cassiterides are ten in number, lying near each other 
in the ocean, towards the north y^om the haven of the Artahriy From 
a comparison of the accounts, it would almost appear that the ancient 
geographers confused the SciUy Islands with the Azores, as those, who 
enter into any detail, attribute to the Cassiterides the characteristics 
almost as njuch of the Azores and the sea in their vicinity, as of the 
Scihy Islands. Cape Finisterre. 
s Or the " Islands of the Blest." We cannot do better than quote a 
