Page:The geography of Strabo (1854) Volume 1.djvu/296

 STRABO. CASATTB. 189. facility of the transport by land, from thence the merchandise is easily conveyed by the Loire. This river flows from the Ce- vennes into the ocean. From Narbonne the voyage to the Aude l is short, but the journey by land to the river Garonne longer, being as much as 700 or 800 stadia. The Garonne like- wise flows into the ocean. Such is what we have to say con- cerning the inhabitants of the Narbonnaise, who were for- merly ^ named Kelts. In my opmToiT the" celebrity of the Kelts induced the Grecians to confer that na_me on the whole of the Galatce ; thevicmity of the Massilians may alsoliave had sometEmg to do with it. 2 CHAPTER II. 1 . WE must now speak of the AgmiaEli and the fourteen Galatic nations pertaining to them, situated between the Ga- ronne and thejLoire, some of which extend to the river Khone "and the plainiTof the Narbonnaise. Generally speaking, the Aquitani may be said to oliffer from theGalatic race, both as to form of body and language, resembling''more nearly the IbertaTis: They are bounded by the~Garonne, and dwell be- tween this river and the Pyrenees. There are above twenty nations which bear the name of Aquitani, small and obscure, ~the~ major part of them dwelling by the ocean, and the re- mainder in the interior and by the extremities of the Cevennes, as far as the Tectosages. This district, however, being too small, they added to it the territory between the Garonne and the Loire. These rivers are nearly parallel with the Pyrenees, and form with them two parallelograms, bounded on the remaining sides by the ocean and the mountains of the Cevennes. 3 Both of these rivers are navigable for a distance 1 *Ara%. 2 The whole of Gaul bore the name of Keltica long before the Romans had penetrated into that country. After their conquest of the southern provinces, they distinguished them from the rest of Keltica by conferring on them the name of Gallia Narbonensis. Aristotle gave the name of Kelts to the inhabitants of the country near Narbonne. Polybius tells us that the Pyrenees separated the Iberians from the Kelts ; while Diodorus Siculus fixed the position of the Kelts between the Alps and the Pyrenees. 3 " Strabo," says Gosselin, u always argues on the hypothesis that the