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Theory. Accordingly he has put down 25 degrees 
of latitude for feme-, but in fuch a manner that the 
fouth end of this imaginary line was not more than 
4 degrees eaft of the north end in the bottom of the 
bay of Siam; by which he has not only contradict- 
ed that very Alexander he himfelf quotes, who told 
him the land was to the north of the line;, but re- 
nounced his fir ft rational opinion, in thinking four 
decrees might be a fufficient allowance for uvag. 
2d. The country beyond Ponteamafs exactly agrees 
with Ptolemy’s defeription of that beyond Cattigara, 
“ a marfhy country, which produced reeds of fuch 
“ a fize, that when they were joined and tied to- 
tt aether, they were enabled to pafs from one fide to 
iC the other, kcu ra uvctjohiKujs^y. ruvjwv, afvu<gog s^tyvjt 
<< XtfAms ex ov<ru iv Q vov l ai > 
“ * a , <ruv£%€<? ovTug, ug re ezppevoug avjav, woiuc&cii Tag 
“ h -” Now the kingdom of Cambo- 
dia is annually overflowed with water during the 
fouth weft monfoons, the very feafon in which the 
fhips arrived there ; fo mult have exadly anfwered 
thefe appearances and his defeription. 
cc Cambodia, or Camboxa, is annually overflowed 
« by the river Menam, one of the largeft in India, 
il carrying fo much water that it floods and covero 
“ the fields, like the Nile in /Egypt; for fix months 
<< it runs backwards. The reaion of it is the extent 
“ and plainnefs of the country it runs along, and the 
“ fouthern breezes which choak up the bar with 
f< fand h” 
h Lib. i. c. 17. 
1 Argcnfola, Hiflory of the Spice Illanus. 
