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be remembered, from the Roman 
province of Pannonia. 
Dion Cassius, himself a gover- 
nor of Upper Pannonia, blames the 
Greeks for confounding the Pwo- 
nians near Macedon with the Pan- 
nonians near the Danube: but as 
he supports his opinions on slight 
grounds, and would’ derive the 
name Pannonia from ‘pewwis, (the 
snaterial of their large sleeves), 
‘it seems. more rational to reject his 
notion,—trusting rather to Strabo, 
Velleins, and Appian, who place 
‘the Pzonians and Pannonians ail 
along these mountains. His error 
‘is natural enough to one who first 
knew the Pannonians in moder 
_ Hungary, ina tutored agricultural 
state, and had only heard of the 
‘rude Pzouians of Macedon; be- 
tween which nations, 
Jilyria and 
‘pose. °° 
Miesia seemed to inter- 
China, as known io the Aucsnuts. 
From the sane. 
Serica is bounded on the west by 
‘Scythia, on the north-east by an 
unknown country, on the south by 
India beyond the Ganges, and aiso 
by the Sine ina latitude of about 
35. This comprchends Koshotey, 
the Chinese province of Shiensi, 
pied anies and part of Siberia. 
- The people are cailed Séres. 
The southern part ef the country 
has many saps which are 
continuations of those in Sc; ythia; 
such as the Abad mountains in the 
Russian province Nertshink ; and 
consequently they have been already 
‘mentioned. Still tarther south, occur 
the Asmirean mountains (Aspagoas 
den) which form the northern limit 
cf the desert of Kobi. To these 
adjoin the Kasian mountains, which 
stretch along the Chinese wall. 
much of 
1 
“THe 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
Mount Thaguron (76 @xyeeov "ogo;) 
stretches from south to north at the 
eastern chd of the Kasian moun- 
tains, and must be that part of the | 
Mongolian chain which meets the 
siver Hoang-ho. Next lie the 
Emodian mountains, which extend 
from the north of Thibet towards 
the province Shiensi; of which the 
Ottorokorras, (ro Orroeoxszens,) on 
which many rivers 
into the Yellow river, is a portion. 
Two great rivers water the ma. } 
jor part of Serica: First, the 
Oichardes, of which the northern 
source is to be sought in the moun- 
tains of Aszak. A second stream of 
it comes from the Asmirzan moun- | 
tains of the south-east in the 474 
degree of latitude. Farther west, 
where the muir stream inclines to. 
wards’ the Emodian mountains, a 
third tributary river arises, under 
44th degree of latitude, but 
more to the north than the Bauti- 
sus, ‘This latter arm is undcubt- 
edly the Erzineh, which loses itself, 
in the desert of ‘Solitk, or in the 
lake Sopu. 
can hardly be any other than the 
river Onghen; which, 
proaches it. Prolemzeus, it should 
seem, had two accounts before 
him: an intervening distritt was 
unknown to both his travellers 2 it 
was only from probability that: | 
rivers» i 
their several * 
great one. The main} 
he conducted 
into the 
stream, Cichardes, then, must be! 
the Selenga ; which, according to 
eee 
étion. a 
econdly, the Bagtiaus (or, ace 
to the edition of Exasmus, | 
)has its source inthe north» 
by the Kasisn mountains on the bor. : 
pes ne 
the Baa res 
ders of Seriea to the 43d degree of | 
lyutudc? 
rise that fall. 
The eastern streara | 
like the | 
Hoi inch, never mingles with the) 
main stream, bur in a manner ap. | 
the geographer, takes a southerly 
