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ftand. In this fame Mediterranean, to the weft ward, is Scot- 

 land b. 



Aha and x^frica are divided by Alexandria (a city of Egypt) ; 

 and that country is bounded to the fouth by the river Nile, and 

 then by Ethiopia to the weftward, quite to the fouthern Ocean. 

 The north-weftern boundary of Africa is the Mediterranean fea, 

 where it is divided from the Ocean, near Hercules's pillars ; the 

 true weftern boundaries are the mountains called Atlas, and the 

 iflands Fortunatus. 



Thus have I fhortly mentioned the three divifions of this earth ; 

 and I will now (as I before intimated) ftate how thefe are bound- 

 ed by land and water. 



Oppoiite to the middle of the eaftern part of Afia the river 

 Ganges empties itfelf into the Sea, whilft the Indian Ocean is to 

 the fouthward, in which is the port Caligardamana. To the 

 fouth-eaft of that port is the illand Taprobane, and to the north 

 of this port are mouths of the river- called Corogorre, in the 

 Ocean named Sericus. 



Now thefe are the boundaries of India. Mount Caucafus is to 

 the north, the river Indus to the weft, the Red Sea to the fouth, 

 and the Ocean to the eaft. In this land of India are four and 

 forty nations, befides the ifland of Taprobane, which hath ten 

 boroughs in it, as alfo many others which are fituated on the 

 banks of the Indus, and lie all to the weftward of India. Betwixt 

 this river of Indus, and another river to the weft, called the 

 Tigris (both which empty themfelves into the Red Sea), are the 



s This is a ftrong additional proof, that fome of the Scoti came from 

 Spain, as is afferted by Lhuyd, in his Welch Preface to the Archaeolo- 

 gia, where he argues both from this colony being called, in the old 

 Irilh MSS. Kin-Skuit, (or the Scottilh nation) as alfo from the great 

 affinity between the Iriih language and the old Cantabrian. See the 

 tranflation of this Preface, in Bifhop Nicolfon's Hut. Library. 



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