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of about 2000 stadia. ^note The Garonne, after being augmented by three other rivers, ^note discharges itself into the [ocean] between the [country] of the Bituriges, surnamed the Vivisci, ^note and that of the Santoni; ^note both of them Gallic nations.

The Bituriges are the only foreign people who dwell among the Aquitani without forming a part of them. Their emporium is Burdegala, ^note situated on a creek formed by the outlets of the river. The Loire discharges itself between the Pictones and the Namnetae. ^note Formerly there was an emporium on this river named Corbilon, mentioned by Polybius when speaking of the fictions of Pytheas. The Marseillese, [says he,] when interrogated by Scipio ^note at their meeting, had nothing to tell about Britain worth mentioning, nor yet had the people of the Narbonnaise, nor those of Corbilon; notwithstanding these were the two principal cities of the district, Pytheas alone dared to forge so many lies [concerning that island]. Mediolanium ^note is the capital of the Santoni. The part of Aquitaine next the ocean is for the most part sandy and meagre, producing millet, but barren of all other fruits. Here is the gulf which, with that on the coast of Narbonne, forms the isthmus. Both these gulfs ^note go by the name of the Galatic gulf. The former gulf belongs to the Tarbelli. ^note These people possess the richest gold mines; masses of gold as big as the fist can contain, and requiring hardly any purifying,