EASTERN SIDE OF MALACCA. 25 



bound to or from the Eaft. There are feveral other channels be- 

 tween the iflands, but that oi Sincapour is the beft; yet all are 

 fubjecl to danger, by reafon of the rapidity and irregularity of 

 the tides, and the reefs or fand banks which are found in fome or 

 other of thefe narrow paffages. The weftern horn of the cre- 

 fcent is Cape Romano \ this ftands in Lat. 2° 12, and is the moft Cape Romano. 

 fouthern point of the continent of yljia. A little to the weft of 

 that point, on a large river, ftands the city oijobore, or Batufa- 

 bar, erroneoufly fuppofed by M. D'Anville to have been the fame 

 with the Zaba or Sabana emporium of Ptolemy, The Cape Ro- 

 ma?20 is certainly the Magnum Promontorium, or Malaucolon, a 

 name borrowed from the antient Malayes. Rojnano feems to be 

 a traditional name, ufed in memory of the nations which fre- 

 quented the, adjacent port, where the fhips muft often have been 

 obliged to wait for the proper wind, to enable them to double 

 the great promontory, and purfue their voyage to the feveral 

 marts on each fide of the gulph of Siam. 



For the tracing the remainder of the coafts on the continent, 

 I fliall no more confult the opinion of my able guide, M. D'^An- 

 'uille, but follow that of a countryman, Mr. John Caverhill^ 

 who, in the Iviith volume of the Philofophical Tranfa^tions, has 

 given a very able criticifm on thofe parts of Ptolemy which 

 relate to thefe particular lliores. 



After doubling the Cape Romano, the peninfula takes a 

 north north- weftern diredtion. Between Lat. 2° 22', and Pulo Fa- 

 rela, in Lat. 3' 20' is an extenfive group of fmall ifles, which 

 fill the fea for a confiderable breadth, almoft to the very (hore; 

 the largeft is Pulo Timon. In pafling down the ftreights of Ma- Polo TIMo^f. 



lacca. 



