168 RESEARCHES ON PTOLEMY’S GEOGRAPHY. 
The identification of Akadra as the modern Kha-Tien on 
the gulf of Siam furnished the initial base beyond the Ganges 
which made the work possible. Further identifications based _ 
on this disclose by the way that Ptolemy’s geography gives us 
the outposts occupied at that early period by the Indian 
Colonists who were pressing southwards. 
A bold alteration is made to the traditional fixing of 
Ptolemy’s farther coast line of the Magnus Sinus (Gulf of 
Tonkin). Ptolemy shared the impression of his contemporaries 
that the coast of Sinai, the modern Hakka country; turned 
southward to the equator thus enclosing the Green. Sea. 
Colonel Gerini induced by the good results obtaied in iden- 
tifying place names, swings this coast line round the Lin Chau 
peninsula to the N.E., till it coincides with the actual coast 
line of China. 
Six-hundred and. eighty pages are closely packed with 
discussions on detailed identifications. 
Turning to Sec. 6, the Golden Chersonese, we find that up 
to the date of the Christian era the present southern part of 
the peninsula was known as Chrysé or the © Golden Isle.” 
The last mention of it.as an island may be dated about A.D. 50. 
After that, in Marinos and Ptolemy, it has become a peninsula. 
Our author thinks that the change of name corresponded with 
- the fact that until our era seagoing ships did ply through the 
channel broken by ridges of rock, which separated Kedah from 
Ban Don. The seacaves are now found in the ridges at. an 
elevation of 100 feet but the passage can almost be effected by 
small boats to-day and it is suggested that the original channel 
is a more suitable site for a canal than the Kra Isthmus farther 
north. The usual trade route however at a later date seems 
to have led over the Kra Isthmus. 
Takota, of which the name is connected with tin or lead, 
was a mart and lay between the Kra Isthmus and the old sea 
channel. 
With regard to Palanda, a Malay name in Ptolemy a a 
town and a river, the notes and the rectification map are in 
favour of the neighbourhood of Kuala Kampar, though an 
Jour. Straits Branch 
