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dern Navigator' gives the following defcription of 
it: “ For 50 leagues from Liam point it is a barren 
“ fandy defert to Ponteamafs, by far the mod confi- 
tc derable port on the coaft, and a place of pretty good 
<c trade for many years, but a narrow river, which 
“ in the rainy feafons of the fouth weft Monfoons 
<c has communication with Banfac or Cambodia river, 
“ which made it draw foreign commerce from the 
. “ city of Cambodia hither, for the city lieth near 
“ 100 miles up the river, and moft part of the way 
“ a continual ftream, made the navigation fo trou- 
blefome as few cared to trade to it, for which rea- 
<c fon they came to Ponteamafs.” 
As this therefore is by far the moft confiderable 
port on the coaft, we may reafonably fuppofe it to 
be the fame with the antient Cattigara. The fol- 
lowing arguments will ferve to confirm the validity 
of this fuppofition. 
The diftance between Ponteamafs and the bottom 
- of the bay, where they began failing for fome days 
fouth, may very well agree with the 4 degrees Pto- 
lemy allows for it. It may be remembered that 
he had fuppofed the 17 degrees beyond Malacca, 
were fituated to the eaft of it; this fuppofition 
which has before been found to be erroneous, Pto- 
lemy feems now to reafon from as a fadt, in order 
to fupport his former hypothefis, notwithftanding his 
declaration that he thought it ridiculous to imagine, 
as others had., that rivets t iptyts fhould fignify many 
days. We have already feen that his firft error con- 
fided in imagining that Cattigara lay 17 degrees eaft 
u Hamilton’s Account cf the Eaft Indies, vol. ti. 
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