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wax, cheese, and honey, of which they have plenty. In the Mount Apennine ^note which lies above the Carni there is a lake which runs out into the Isar, which river, after receiving another river, the Aude, ^note discharges itself into the Adriatic. From this lake there is also another river, the Atesinus, which flows into the Danube. ^note The Danube itself rises in the mountains which are split into many branches and numerous summits. For from Liguria to here the summits of the Alps stretch along continuously, presenting the appearance of one mountain; but after this they rise and fall in turns, forming numerous ridges and peaks. The first of these is beyond the Rhine and the lake ^note inclining towards the east, its ridge moderately elevated; here are the sources of the Danube near to the Suevi and the forest of Hercynia. ^note The other branches extend towards Illyria and the Adriatic, such are the Mount Apennine, already mentioned, Tullum and Phligadia, ^note the mountains lying above the Vindelici from whence proceed the Duras, ^note the Clanis, ^note and many other rivers which discharge themselves like torrents into the current of the Danube. 10

Near to these regions dwell the Iapodes, (a nation now mixed with the Illyrians, and Kelts,) close to them is [the Mount] Ocra. ^note Formerly the Iapodes were numerous, in- habiting either side of the mountain, and were notorious for their predatory habits, but they have been entirely reduced and brought to subjection by Augustus Caesar. Their cities are