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CAS. 137. ^note than 3000, particularly in the vicinity of the Pyrenees, which form the eastern side. This chain of mountains stretches without interruption from north to south, ^note and divides Keltica ^note from Iberia. The breadth both of Keltica and Iberia is irregular, the narrowest part in both of them from the Mediterranean to the [Atlantic] Ocean being near the Pyrenees, particularly on either side of that chain; this gives rise to gulfs both on the side of the Ocean, and also of the Mediterranean; the largest of these are denominated the Keltic or Galatic Gulfs, ^note and they render the [Keltic] Isthmus narrower than that of Iberia. ^note The Pyrenees form the eastern side of Iberia, and the Mediterranean the southern from the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, thence the exterior [ocean] ^note as far as the Sacred Promontory. ^note The third or western side runs nearly parallel to the Pyrenees from the Sacred Promontory to the promontory of the Artabri, called [Cape] Nerium. ^note The fourth side extends hence to the northern extremity of the Pyrenees. 4

We will now commence our detailed account, beginning from the Sacred Promontory. This is the most western point not only of Europe, but of the whole habitable earth. For the habitable earth is bounded to the west by two continents, namely, the extremities of Europe and Libya, ^note which are inhabited respectively by the Iberians and the Maurusians. ^note But the Iberian extremity, at the promontory ^note we have mentioned, juts out beyond the other as much as 1500 stadia. ^note The region adjacent to this cape they call in the Latin tongue Cu-