In the Country of the Weflern-Moors. i y 



Yet perhaps it may be ftill urged^ that Wny and Ttolemy P'^'^y Z"'^"*^ 

 mention both the Malva and the Mulucha or Chylemath, ^i^PoVmo/'tZ 

 therefore they may be prefumed to be different Rivers. The 

 Maha, or Mahana as Tliny calls it, was certainly well known 

 to Him ', from His defcribing it to be a navigahle River: a Pro- 

 perty which no River within the Ccejarienfis can boaft of. The 

 Tortus Magnus may be likewife fuppofed to have been better 

 known in the Time of P/i;//,than when Mela lived ; becaufe there 

 was now a Roman Town built and a Colony^ fettled in that Place, 

 from whence the Geographers and Hiftorians of His Age might 

 receive what additional Difcoveries Ihould be made concerning the 

 Nature and Situation of the neighbouring Country. But there 

 being no remarkable River within twenty Miles at leaft of the 

 Tortm Magnus, Tl'iny could not receive any new Informations 

 concerning the Pofition of a River which did not fubfift. All 

 the Notice therefore which he may be prefumed to have had 

 of the Mulucha, muft have been from fome preceding Autho- 

 rity; from that oi Straho, or Mela rather whom he always 

 copies. Tliny then finding that Mela ' placed the Mulucha near 

 the Tortus Magnus, at a great Diftance from his Mahana, 

 could by no means fufpedl they were the fame; but relying 

 altogether upon His Veracity and Exadlnefs, adopted the fame 

 Miftake, and thereby continued down to future Ages the fame 

 Pofition to the Mulucha, which he found it placed in by Mela. 



Ttolemy, befides the Authority oi Mela, had That hkewife Ptoi^my /o/. 

 of Tliny in this particular Circumftance; and from hence it J^ ^'"^ Pimy 

 might arife, that agreeable to thefe Authors, the Chylemath «/ hi Q\!^\t 

 (fuppofed to be the Mulucha) came to be laid down by him as '"^' ' 

 a different River, and at a great Diftance from the Maha to 

 the Eaftward; whilft the Molochath, agreeably as he thought 

 to the Authority of Straho, was placed nearer the Maha, ^nd'""^^^'^^^''' 

 not Half a Degree ^ diftant from it to the Weft ward. And in- 

 deed, provided Ttolemy had taken no Notice at all of the Mal- 

 va, ( and I doubt whether this Part of the Country admits of 

 any two fuch contiguous Rivers ) the Pofition he gives here 

 to his Molochath, would have fufficiently anfwered to The 

 Boundary. 



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