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Chap. 35.] Also, the islands called Cicæ the famous city of Abobrica, the river Minius , four miles wide at its mouth, the Leuni, the Seurbi, and Augustæ , a town of the Bracari, above whom lies Galæcia. 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 Vaccæi, dividing the Yettones from Asturia, the Grallæci from Lusitania, 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.) — LUSITANIA.

After passing the Durius, Lusitania begins. We here have the ancient Turduli, the Pæsuri, the river Vaga , the town of Talabrica, the town and river of Æminium, the towns of Conimbrica, Collippo , 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-