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The Liger discharges itself between the Pictŏnes and Namnitae. Britain is quite unknown to the southern Gauls. There was in ancient times an emporiumThe Loire between Poitou and Nantes. Coiron. on this river called Corbilo, but none of its inhabitants, nor those of Massalia or Narbo, could give ScipioWhich member of the Cornelian gens this was is unknown. He appears to have been at Marseilles in the 4th century B. C. inquiring as to centres of trade open to Rome in rivalry with Carthage. any information worth mentioning on the subject of Britain when questioned by him, though they were the most important cities in that part of the country; and yet Pytheas has ventured on all those stories about it. . . .
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An animal is produced on the Alps of a peculiar form; itsThe Elk. shape is that of a stag except its neck and coat, which resemble that of a he-goat. Beneath its chin it has an excrescence about a span long, hairy at the end, about as thick as a colt’s tail. . . .
