Chap. 35.] ACCOTIN"T OF COITKTEIES, ETC. 363 Also, the islands called Cic8e the famous city of Abo- "brica^, the river Miiiius^, four miles vdde at its mouth, the Leuui, the Seurbi'*, and Augusta*, a town of the Bracari, above whom lies GalLTcia. AVe then come to the river Limia^, and the river Durius^, one of the largest in Spain, &nd which rises in the district of the Pelendoues^, passes near Numantia, and through the Arevaci and the Yaccaei, di^^ding the Yettones from Asturia, the Gralla?ci from Lusi- tania, 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.) — LTJSITANIA. After passing the Durius, Lusitania^° begins . AYe here have the ancient Turduli, the Ptesuri, the river Yaga'^, the town of Talabrica, the town and river '^ of ^minium, 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 Promou- ^ The modem Islas do Scyas or of Bayona. " The town of Bayona, about six leagues from the mouth of the river Minho. 3 The Minlio.
- They occupied the tract of country lying between the rivers, and
known as Entre Douro y Mmho, ^ Now Braga on the Cavado. ^ The Lima. ^ The river Douro. ^ See B. iii. c. 3. ^ Both lead, properly so called, and tm. ^0 In a great degree corresponding with modem Portugal, except that the latter includes the tract of country between the Minho and Doiu*o. ^1 To distinguish them from the nation of tie same name sprung ii'om them, and occupying the Farther Sjiain. (B. iii. c. 3.) The Pa^smi occupied the site of the present towns of Lamego and Arouca. 12 The modem Tonga, which runs below the town of Aveiro, raised from the ruins of ancient Talabrica. 13 Agueda, which, according to ITardouin, is the name of both the river and the town. i"* Coimbra, formerly Condtja la Yeja. 1^ Leiria is supposed to occupy its site. 1^ According to lIardoui:i, the modem Ebora dc Alcobaza, ten leagues from Leiria. 17 The modem Cabo de la Koea, seven leagues from Lisbon. 18 Phny, in C. 31-, places the Arrotrebsr, belonging to the Con- ventus of IjUcus Angusti, about the Promontorium Coltieum, which, if not the same as the Nerium (or Cape Finisterre) of the others, is evitlenlly in its immediate neighbourhood j but he confuses the whole matter by
