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and was the termination of the known and habitable earth to the 

 fouth. The P^r//>/z/J of this geographer, maybe found in the 

 firft volume of the Geographicz "jeteris Scriptores^ pubUfhed at 

 Oxford in 1698. 



The Notium Promontorium, was to the north-weft of Ponte- Notium 



. , -. Promont. 



amas. The bay mentioned by Marcianus Heracleota to be 10 in- 

 fefted by wild beafts, and the part inhabited by the Ethiopian 

 Icthyophagi, extended from that port to the fouth ; cape Cambodia 

 feems the Satyrorum Promontorium^ probably becaufe it was the 

 haunt of fome large fpecies of monkey. 



The productions of the kingdom of Cambodia are gold and Proouctioks 

 ivory in great abundance. The Siamefe, in their expedition of ° 

 1717, dertroyed not lefs than two hundred tons that happened to 

 be in the port, ready for exportation. Sandal wood, fapan 

 wood, aloes wooA, Jlick lac, and a great variety of drugs . Dampier * 

 adds rice, dragons blood, lac, i.e. varnifli in large jars, which 

 looked blackiQi and thick, and a yellow purging gum in great 

 cakes called Cainbodia^ by which he certainly means gamboge. 

 The whole country is prodigioufly fertile, and yields almoft 

 every thing that the vegetable or animal kingdom produces in 

 common with other parts of Eaftcrn India. 



The Portuguefe, fays MandelfM, were in pofTeflion of the com- 

 merce of Cambodia as late as the year 16:9, notwithftanding 

 every effort of the Dutcb to come in for a fhare ; but it muft 

 have been long enjoyed by the latter nation, after the fall of 

 the Portuguefe empire in India. The reigning prince in 1720, 

 Teemed very folicitous that the Englifb fliould fettle in his domi- 



* Voy. Vol, ii. p. 105, 



nion?. 



