fact that a new partition of Gaul was ihade in the time of
Augustus, and Bab parts beloftging f©'?(^evdivisibh haye been
confounded with those of the other: tMtica, which after the
time of Augustus was generally called Lugdunensis*.. from its
capital city Lugdunum or Lyons* was now scarcely half so
large in extent as the-, old land- of the Celtee. All the country
between the Garonne and the Loire was taker? from it and
added to Aquftahia, arid all the territory ' eastward of the
Saone and reaching from the Vosgesian mountains to the
Rhine, was added toiBelgica. The new province of Gallia
Lugdunensis comprised, only the countries between the Loire,
the Seine, the’Marne, and the Saone.* Such was-fhe limita-
tion of the different parts of Gaul, according to Pliny and
Ptolemy. JJnfortunately Strabo has confounded the oldefl;
with the later division. He has-taken Caesar as his principal
guide, but has so misunderstood his account as to have introduced
numerous errors into the geography‘:of Gaul/’ which-
have furnished a basis for a variety pf_hypothetical suppositions.
'
. Strabo was so c a r e t s of his authority as to mistake entirely
the situation of Gallia Celtica. He perheife; not that
Caesar in . his division of the three" countries of independent
Gaul, purposely omitted the Roman province,-pr GalliauN'arj
bonensis, so named(from its capital cityJNarbo* builtoby* the
consul Q. Martius Rex, d f8 years before':Chri#, immediately
after the conquest of that -district by tbe? RomansMStmbp
terms the Roman province Gallia Celtica* o t, and
mentions nb Celtic region in the northern parts of Gaul, or
beyond Mons Cemmenus, the Cevennes, which he- makes the
northern boundary of Celtica. Gallia Celtica, according to
Strabo,occupied the coast of the Mediterranean : it reached
northward to the ridge or chain of hills just mentioned,-and
in length extended from the feet of the Pyrenees to those of the
Ligurian Alps, or to the river Varno, in the neighbourhood of
Nice and Antibes. The principal Celtic nations in this province
were, as. Strabo informs us, the Volcse Teetosages and
the Vblcie Arecpmici, to the westward of the Rhone and ih
the mountainous countries to the-eastward of that river, and
* See Mannert, Geographic der Grifefcher uftd Romer. Th. 2, L b., i. 140.
the Salyés o^fSallüviansf*cpnsidered- by the early Greeks as
a^Ligurian tribe, buU declared byflater writers to have been
Gaut^i;Strabo ^ rm s the Celtica/pf other/ writers merely
l^ugdlunensis, from its/capital pity, and appears tp have had
n ^ d l^ 'tb a t jit waS'%h||bite^by.sP^tic^Gauls : he does not
mar^ipjdé^thé, boundiary., betweèra|,s|hut, province and Belgica.
We theilpfqre. pEinnQt * wonderythat he even looks upon the
tribes in Britanny—^tjae ^enbti/ Osismii, and others,-—as Bek?
gians, and ,d^p\S/ifthem “ va^uKeauirai^^-pv- Belgians of
t hgjsqa. pp asty:,,
;^Strabqi!s .acopu?^ throws everything that relates to. the divi-
^^i^fiGalliq tribes intoeonfusion, andsjys mistakes’ I have
hi^edy hate furnished a’lp^tehce for é<pie opinions maintained
by, i^pP-nwriter-s, wbich^a^quite pt, variance with what
w^coUe^from all other^uthoritlie%l; It idiso’muchjtjae moré
important to1 remark, that his peculiar notions are’ entirely
^QeeouSy; and this/will, be the mjpre« readily admitted as he
pp£eéses-4^fo lioC aesa r, «while-, he has given a statement
pxt^meïy^ different from that of his predecessor. In repre^
seating the Americans Belgian nations,-he is. n<ot less in
oppbsit^pn . to: pR other writers than ih confining Gallia Celtica
within the boundaries of the Roman province.-., .
^ »Pliny and Ptolemy, the latter apparently with theigreatest
accuracy, * haverenumerated the “ civitatdsf” or' states,i comprehended
inthe different Roman provinces of Gaul; as well
d® the principal towns, in each district. •• A survey of the
boundaries given to each province by -these writers will- assist
Us in coming to a conclusion in the inquiry what particular
tribes,belonged to each race.
^ It would appear that mèst of the tribes who lived-oh the
northern border of Celtica, namely, on the Seine, possessed both
banks of that river. These frontier nations' are generally
reckoned to belong to Gallia Lugdunensis or Celtica, though
some of them appear from Caesar’s account to have been
Belgae: they were at least associated- with Belgian nationsin the
great confederacies of that people. Thus, next to the mouth of
the Seine we find the Caletës of Caesar, the Caletae and Calleti
0'f Ptolemyund Pliny. On/tlie sea-coast they reached’nearly
to the mouth of the Somme* and by Caesar they are reckoned
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