67.] And yet, if we may credit Orosius, these monstrous castles were no more than ten feet above the water, vi.

19.] [Footnote 68: See Lipsius, de Magnitud.Rom.l.i.c.

5.

The sixteen last chapters of Vegetius relate to naval affairs.] [Footnote 69: Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.c.29.It must, however, be remembered, that France still feels that extraordinary effort.] We have attempted to explain the spirit which moderated, and the strength which supported, the power of Hadrian and the Antonines.
We shall now endeavor, with clearness and precision, to describe the provinces once united under their sway, but, at present, divided into so many independent and hostile states.

Spain, the western extremity of the empire, of Europe, and of the ancient world, has, in every age, invariably preserved the same natural limits; the Pyrenaean Mountains, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean.