[805] The Rock of Gibraltar.
[806] The fable was that they originally formed one mountain, which was torn asunder by Hercules, or as Pliny says, “dug through.”
[807] This was the opinion of Herodotus, but it had been so strenuously combated by Polybius and other writers before the time of Pliny, that it is difficult to imagine how he should countenance it.
[808] He probably alludes to Leucopetra, now called Capo dell’ Armi. Locri Epizephyrii was a town of Bruttium, situate north of the promontory of Zephyrium, now called Capo di Bruzzano.
[809] So called from the Bætis, now the Guadalquivir or Great River.
[810] The situation of this town is not known, but it is supposed to have been about five leagues from the present city of Mujacar, or Moxacar. It was situate on the Sinus Urgitanus.
[811] So called from the city of Tarraco, on the site of the present Tarragona.
[812] Corresponding nearly in extent with the present kingdom of Portugal.
[813] Now Gaudiana, a corruption of the Arabic Wadi Ana, “the river Ana.”
[814] According to Hardouin this place is the modern town of Montiel, but Pinet and D’Anville make it the same as Alhambra.