[175] “Two leagues” are his words—meaning Spanish measure, or eight miles English; since he estimates the league at four miles.
[176] Otherwise called Horgarganta.
[177] Florez fixes Salduba where I suppose Cilniana to have stood, i. e. on the eastern bank of the Rio Verde, about two miles to the westward of Marbella. Cilniana he places at the Torre de Bovedas, a site to which the objections above stated apply equally as to the position assigned to that place by Mr. Carter.
[178] Pliny places Salduba between Barbesula and Suel.
[179] Marbella is a fine place, but do not enter it.
[180] This may appear at variance with what I have said in computing the distance from Malaca to Calpe Carteía in Roman miles—viz., only eighty of eighty-three and one third to a degree of the meridian: but, besides that the distance from Malaga to Gibraltar is at least three English miles greater than to Carteía, the measurement I here give is along a winding pathway, that makes the distance considerably more than it would have been by a properly made road, even though it had followed all the irregularities of the coast.
[181] Bell. Hisp. cap. xxix.
[182] Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga.
[183] Traces of the first-named of these Roman roads may yet be seen about Tolox. The latter was one of the great military roads mentioned in the Itinerary of Antoninus, and, doubtless, existed long before that work was compiled.
[184] Hirtius, de Bell. Hisp. xxix. et seq.