10.
The Meuse rises from mount
Le Vosge, which is in the territories of the Lingones ; and, having received a branch of the Rhine
, which is called the Waal , forms
the island of the Batavi, and not more than eighty miles from it it
falls into the ocean. But the Rhine takes its source among
the Lepontii, who inhabit the Alps , and is carried with a
rapid current for a long distance through the territories of the
Sarunates, Helvetii,
Sequani, Mediomatrici, Tribuci, and
Treviri , and when it approaches the ocean, divides into several
branches; and, having formed many and extensive islands, a great part of which
are inhabited by savage and barbarous nations (of whom there are some who are
supposed to live on fish and the eggs of sea-fowl), flows into the ocean by
several mouths.
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