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The whole of Gaul that is comprehended under the one general name of Comata [Note], is divided into three races of people, which are more especially kept distinct from each other by the following rivers. From the Scaldis to the Sequana [Note] it is Belgic Gaul; from the Sequana to the Garumna [Note] it is Celtic Gaul or Lugdunensis [Note]; and from the Garumna to the promontory of the Pyrenæan range it is Aquitanian Gaul, formerly called Aremorica [Note]. Agrippa makes the entire length of the coast of Gaul to be 1800 miles, measured from the Rhine to the Pyrenees: and its length, from the ocean to the mountains of Gebenna and Jura, excluding there from Gallia Narbonensis, he computes at 420 miles, the breadth being 318.
Beginning at the Scaldis, the parts beyond [Note] are inhabited by the Toxandri, who are divided into various peoples with many names; after whom come the Menapii [Note], the Morini [Note], the Oromarsaci [Note], who are adjacent to the burgh which is known as Gesoriacum [Note], the Britanni [Note], the Ambiani [Note], the Bel-
lovaci [Note], the Hassi [Note], and, more in the interior, the Catoslugi [Note], the Atrebates [Note], the Nervii [Note], a free people, the Veromandui [Note], the Suæuconi [Note], the Suessiones [Note], a free people, the Ulmanetes [Note], a free people, the Tungri [Note], the Sunuci [Note], the Frisiabones [Note], the Betasi [Note], the Leuci [Note], a free people, the Treveri [Note], who were
formerly free, and the Lingones [Note], a federal state, the federal Remi [Note], the Mediomatrici [Note], the Sequani [Note], the Raurici [Note], and the Helvetii [Note]. The Roman colonies are Equestris [Note] and Rauriaca [Note]. The nations of Germany which dwell in this province, near the sources of the Rhine, are the Nemetes [Note], the Triboci [Note], and the Vangiones [Note]; nearer again [Note], the Ubii [Note], the Colony [Note] of Agrippina, the Cugerni [Note], the Batavi [Note], and the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling on the islands of the Rhine.
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