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the Aurea Cherfonefus or Malacca ; and that the 
antients had never failed farther than Cattigara : for 
contiguous to it was a terra incognita a . But at 
what difiance the Aurea Cherfonefus was from 
Cattigara, Ptolemy himfelr was ignorant ; for he 
fays, “ that Marinus, who is quoted by him upon- 
“ this occafion, had not marked the number of the 
“ fladia : tu A uno ry\g xgvryg i<rx £7n tu K ut~ 
U T (hu7TXii TIV 70cSiO,<T(JL0V 0 OVX i)c]t()e]ui b . 
“ It was faid however that Alexander reported the 
fC land from thence lay upon the north fide of the 
;c line; and that thofe who failed along the fhore, 
;c arrived at the city of Zaba in twenty days; from 
“ Zaba failing fouth, and efpecially to the left hand, 
“ in fome days they reached Cattigara: <5s 
tc AXsfccivfyov ctvaytF&Cptvcii Ttjv ylu> enevQev evuvjiuv eivcu 
ie ry kcu rovg TrXsovjag Txra.^ cwlvjv ev yjfxt^ug 
te eiKotri auTuXu^uveiv vsoXiv 'Z.u&ctg. utto A tuv 7Lu£mv 
“ gzrpog votov 3i<x7rXEU<rcc,VToiSy x.cu puhAov Pig tu evuvvfuu 
“ r,fAe()oig Ttvccg y ex.^e^eS’ca tu KurJiFu^i.” In order 
therefore to endeavour to acquire fome knowledge of 
the diftance, Ptolemy begins by comparing it with 
the fame number of days failing on a part of the 
coafl of Africa, with which he was acquainted ; and, 
after this uncertain calculation, concludes, that thefe 
two places might be diflant from each other 17 de- 
grees and 
As his only view through this whole chapter is 
to fi'nifh what he had begun in the foregoing ones, 
the longitude of the then known world, his errors 
are the more excufable ; efpecially as his calcula- 
a Ptol. Geograph, 1 . i. c. 1 7. Paris, 1546. b Lib. i. c. 14. 
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