MENOUTHIAS. 



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12°, and nearly opposite the Lunar Mountain, 

 and the Lakes whence the Nile arises (S. lat. 12° 

 30'). The mouth of the Bhapta river and Bhapta, 

 the metropolis of Barbaria, are in S. lat. 7°, the 

 Bhapta promontory is in S. lat. 8° 20' 5", and 

 the Prasum promontory in S. lat. 15°. By ap- 

 plying the correction as before, we have for Me- 

 nouthias S. lat. 6° (the capital of Zanzibar being 

 in S. lat. 6° 9' 6") ; for the Lakes, 6° 30', which 

 would nearly bisect Tanganyika ; for Bhapta 

 river and city, S. lat. 1° (or more exactly, S. lat. 

 1° 10'); the mouth of the Jub river being in S. 

 lat. 0° 14° 30'; the Bhapta promontory in S. 

 lat. 2° 30', corresponding with the coast about 

 Patta ; and finally, for Prasum S. lat. 9° 10'— 

 Cape Delgado being in S. lat. 10° 41' 12." 



The account given of Menouthias in the Peri- 

 plus (written between a.d. 61, Yincent, and a.d. 

 210, Letronne *) is that of an eyewitness : 6 After 

 two nychthemeral days (each of 100 miles) 

 towards the west [here the text is evidently 

 corrupt] comes Menouthias, altogether insulated, 

 distant from the land about 300 stadia (30 geo- 



1 Captain Guillain (vol. i. 121—139, et passim) contends, 

 and with much show of reason, that the Periplus was written 

 after the days of Ptolemy (a.d. 139 and a.d. 161). ' Tant de 

 lacunes dans l'ceuvre du grand geographe grec, ne semhlent-elles 

 pas assigner a son travail une place toute naturelle entre les 

 cents de Marin de Tyr et le Periple ? ' 



