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tions will be found very near the truth r his great eft 
miftake therefore is in adding thefe 17 degrees to 
the longitude of the earth ; whereas Cattigara was 
to the latitude of Malacca, and almoft upon the fame 
Meridian. 
Although Ptolemy no where particularly mentions 
from what pait of Malacca the bailors who went 
this voyage took their departure, yet as his mod: 
fouthern point of land in this Peninfula, is exadtly 
1 7 degrees of longitude from Cattigara, and as Ro- 
mana is the mold fouthern cape of Malacca at pre- 
fent, this clearly indicates it to have been near that 
cape, but to the weft of it. 
For el fe where he acquaints us c , “ that he had 
“ learned many particulars concerning the inland 
“ parts of the provinces and countries of India, even 
“ to the Aurea Cherfonefus, and from thence to Cat- 
“ tigara, and the bailors who went this voyage agreed 
“ that it was to the eaft ; but that they immediately 
“ returned towards the weft; and that the time 
“ for performing this laft voyage was irregular, and 
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To explain this paflage it may be obferved, that 
their failing firft to the eaft was from neceftity, be- 
caufe they had not as yet doubled cape Romana, the 
c Lib. i. c. 17. 
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