Famous Cities X. — Arles

Open thy havens with a gracious welcome, two-fold Arelate — Arelas the little Rome of Gaul, to whom Martian Narbonne, to whom Vienne, rich in Alpine peasantry, is neighbour — divided by the streams of headlong Rhone in suchwise that thou mak'st a bridge of boats thy central street, whereby thou gatherest the merchandize of the Roman world and scatterest it, enriching other peoples and the towns which Gaul and Aquitaine treasure in their wide bosoms.