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Agmata., and that they went naked. The Sada Civitas is placed 

 on the coaft oi Ava hy M. DA?iville, in Lat. i8\ We are little 

 acquainted with the country, but that able geographer difco- 

 vers it to have been a place ftill known by the name of Sadca. 

 Near it was the Sadus Fluvius. Berabonna was another town of 

 Ptolemfs^ feated on the fame coaft, in Lat. 16'' 30', now called 

 Barabon] and at the extremity of the foiithern fide oi Ava is 

 ■Cape Negrais, in about Lat. 16% the antient Promojitorium Te~ Cape Negrais. 

 mula. From Mr. Bakef^ furvey, in Mr. Dalrymple's collection, 

 it appears to be lofty, and in part very precipitous. The ille of 

 Negrais and another, both oft' the mouth of the river, form 

 within them a noble harbor, fecure from all winds. The En- 

 glijb, of late years, wiflied to fix here a fettleraent. The country 

 is incredibly fertile in rice, and might have proved a fine re- 

 fource to the Coromandel coaft, and even to Bengal, in times of 

 fcarcity, exclufive of the advantages to be derived from the har- 

 bor in time of war. As to rice, it is fold here at tSvelve pagodas 

 a garce ; whereas in Coromandel it is generally above thirty, and 

 fometimes even eighty a garce. 



The kingdom of Pegt6 begins at this cape; the coaft turns Pegu. 

 then fuddenly to the eaft, and extends above two hundred 

 miles, inclining, after fome way, llightly to the north, as far as 

 the river of Martaban, the boundary between Pegu and the 

 province of Martaban, which adjoins to the kingdom of Siam. 

 Pegu is extremely narrow at the part next to Cape Negrais ; but it 

 widens quickly, fo as to take in the whole Delta of the Ava, and 

 Hretches north as high as Lat. 19°. In the maps the coaft ofAva is 

 comprehended in the kingdom of Pegu. We know fo little of thefe 



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