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 860 PLINY's NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book lY. free people, wlio are also known as the Cubi, and then the Lemovices the Arverni^, a free people, and the Grabales^. Again, adjoining the province of Narbonensis are theE.u- teni"*, the Cadurei^, the Nitiobriges^, and the Petrocori^, separated by the river Tarnis from the Tolosani. The seas around the coast are the Northern Ocean, flowing up to the mouth of the Khine, the Britannic Ocean between the Bhine and the Sequana, 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.j — NEAEER SPAIN, ITS COAST ALOITa THE GALLIC OCEAlf. 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 Avaricmn, now Bourges. ^ They inhabited the district formerly known as the Limosin, now the departments of the Creuse, the Haute Viemie, and the Correze. Their chief town was Augnstoritum, afterwards Lemovices, now Lmioges. - They occupied the district formerly known as Auvergne, foi*ming the present department of the Alher, and the southern part of thePuy deDome and the Cantal. Augustonemetum was their cliief town, now Clennont. ^ Situate in the district formerly known as Gevaudan, now the de- partment of La Lozere. Their chief town stood on the site of the present small town of Javoidx, foiu' leagues from Mende. ^ They are supposed to have occupied the former district of Rouergue, now known as the department of Aveyron. Their chief town was Sego- dunum, afterwards Ruteni, now known as Rhodez. 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- dem Agen, in the present department of Lot-et- Garonne. " Antobroges," however, is the more common reading. 7 They occupied the district formerly known as Perigord, in the de- partment of theDordogne j their town was Yesanna, afterwards Petrocori, now Perigueux. ^ Ansart says they are about 200 m number, consisting of Belle Isle, 6-roaix, Houat, Hoedic, and others. Also probably Morbilian. ^ The Isle of Oleron, the fountain-head of the maritune 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.
 * They occupied the former district of Querci, the present department