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Chap. 35.] ACCOTJITT OF COrNTEIES, ETC. 365 of 160 miles from it is the Sacred Promontory^ projecting from nearly the very middle of the front- of JSpaiu. From this spot to the middle of the Pyrenees, A^arro says, is a distance of 1400 miles ; while to the Anas, by which we have mentioned^ Lusitania as being separated from Ba^tica, is 126 miles, it being 102 more to Gades. The peoples are the Celtici, the Turduli, and, about the Tagus, the Vettones'*. From the river Anas to the Sacred Promontory* are the Lusitani. The cities worthy of men- tion on the coast, beginning from the Tagus, are that of Olisipo^, famous for its mares, which conceive^ from the west wind ; Salacia"^, Avhich is surnamed the Imperial City ; Merobrica'-' ; and then the Sacred Promontory, viith the other known by the name of Cuneus^", and the towns of Ossonoba^ Balsa^-, and Myrtili^^. The whole of this province is divided into three jurisdic- tions, those of Emerita, Pax, and Scalabis. It contains in all forty-six peoples, among whom there are five colonies, ^ Now Cape St. Tincent. ^ Pliny contmues his error here, in taking part of the -western side of Spain for the north, and part of the southern coast for the western. 3 B. iii. c. 2. ■* With the Vettones, situate in the province of the Alentcjo. See B. iii. c. 3. ^ In the present province of Algarve. ^ Now Lisbon. Botli Strabo, iSohnus, and Martianus Capella make mention of a stoi"y that Ulysses came to Spain and founded this city. 7 See B. viii. c. 67 of the present work. ^ According to llardouin, followed by D'Anville and Uckert, tliis place gives name to Alcazar do Sal, nearly midway between Evora and the sea-shore. Manncrt says Setuval, which D'Anville however supposes to be the ancient Cetobriga. ^ On its site stands Santiago de Cacem, nearly midway between Lisbon and Cape St. Tincent. ^^ Or tlie " Wedge," generally supposed to be Cabo de Santa ^Maria. Ansart however tliinks that it is the Punta de Sagres, near Cape St. Vincent. Phny's words indeed seem to imply a closer proximity than that of Capes St. Vincent and Santa Maria. ^' According to llardouin, the modem Estombar; according to D'Anville, in the vicuiity of Faro ; but ten leagues from that place, ac- cording to Manncrt. ^- Hardouin and D'Anville are of ophiion that Tavii*a occupies its site. ^ Now Mertola, on the river Guadiana.