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other parts, as we have previously mentioned^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Olarso^[4], the towns of the Varduli^[5] the Morosgi^[6], Menosca^[7], Vesperies^[8], and the Port of Anianus^[9], where now stands the colony of Plaviobriga. We then come to the district of the nine states of the Cantabri^[10], the river Sauga^[11] and the Port of Victoria of the Juliobrigenses^[12], from which place the sources of the Iberus^[13] are distant forty miles. We next come to the Port of Blendium^[14], the Orgenomesci^[15], a people of the Cantabri, Vereasueca^[16] their port, the country of the As-

1. B. iii. c. 3.
2. From Kuscino to Gades.
3. In the province now known as Guipuzcoa.
4. Supposed to be the present Cabo do la lliguera.
5. Probably inhabiting the eastern part of the provinces of Biscay and Alava, the eastern portion of Navarre, and, perhaps, a part of the province of Guipuzcoa.
6. According to Hardouin the modern San Sebastian occupies the site of their town.
7. On the same site as the modern Bermco, according to Mannert. Hardouin thinks, however, and with greater probability, that it was situate at the mouth of the river Orio.
8. D'Anville considers this to be the site of the city of Berraeo.
9. 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.
10. Accordmg 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.
11. Most probably the present Rio de Suancès, by Mannert called the Saya, into which the Besanga flows. Hardouin however calls it the Nervio.
12. Ansart suggests that this is the modern San Vicente de la Barquera. If the river Sauga is the same with the Suanees, this cannot be the port of Santander, as has been suggested.
13. Or Ebro.
14. According to Ansart, this is either the modern Ensenada de Ballota or else the Puerta de Pô.
15. According to Ansart, the Orgenomesci occupied the same teritory which Ptolemy has assigned to the Cantabri in general. See Note ¹⁰ above.
16. Hardouin takes this to be Villavieiosa. Ansart thinks that Ria de Cella occupies its site.