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 B. iv. c. i. 13. GAUL. THE NARBONNAISE. 279 the road from Iberia to Italy ; this road is very good in the summer, bat muddy and overflowed by the rivers during winter and spring. Some of these streams are crossed in ferry-boats, and others by means of bridges constructed either of wood orstone. The irmruTaTions~which destroy the roads are'causeHnBy the winter torrents, which sometimes pour down from the Alps even in summer-time after the melting of the snows. To perform the route before mentioned, the shortest way is, as we have said, across the territory of the Vocontii direct to the Alps ; the other, along the coast of Marseilles and Liguria, is longer, although it oifers an easier passage into Italy, as the mountains are lower. Nemausus is about 100 stadia distant from the Rhone, situated opposite to the small town of laraseon, and about 720 stadia from Narbonne. The Tectosages, 1 and -certain others whom we shall mention afterwards, border on the range of the Cevennes, and inhabit its southern side as far as the promontory of the Vote. Respecting all the others we will speak here- after. 13. But the Tectosages dwell near to the Pyrenees, border- ing for a small space the northern side of the Cevennes ; 2 the land they inhabit is rich in gold. It appears that formerly they were so powerfuraind numerous, that dissensions having arisen amongst them, they drove a vast multitude of their number from their homes ; and that these men associating with others of different nations took possession of Phrygia, next to_Cappadocia, and the Paphlagonians. <5f this those who areliow called the Tectosages afford us proof, for [Phrygia con- tains] three nations, one of them dwelling near to the city of Ancyra, 3 being called the Tectosages ; the remaining two, the Trocmi and Tolistobogii. 4 The resemblance these nations bear to the Tectosages is evidence~o7jtheir having immigratedjrom KelticaTtKough we are unable to say from which district they came, as there does not appear to be any people at the present time bearing the name of Trocmi or Tolistobogii, who in- 1 This name is written diversely, Tectosages, Tectosagae, and Tectosagi. It appears to be comp6sed of the two Latin words, " tectus," covered, and " sagum," a species of cassock. 2 Viz. between Lodeve and Toulouse ; we must remember that Strabo. supposed the chain of the Cevennes to run west and east. 3 Angora. 4 These three nations inhabited Galatia, of which Ancyra was the capital