I i6 3 ] 
3d. No other country will correfpond with his 
defcription of the Sinae ; “ they were bounded on the 
“ north by part of Serica k , on the eaft: and fouth by 
tc an unknown land, on the wed: by India, without 
“ the Ganges, according to the parallel already men- 
<c tioned, and the great bay, and by the parts adja- 
(( cent of the bay inhabited by wild beads, and a part 
<c of the bay of Sins inhabited by ./Ethiopian fifli- 
ct eaters : ol ’Zivca '5re{/o£/tyv]a.i, U 7 ro cxqkIuv ekts- 
c< vea |t6 ij)ei Ttj; T'/i^/nyig, ct7ro$e avajoXuv kui fjt&rv/p&g/cig 
<£ ciFvu^a yy,. utto $e ducreag, ry VayFa Ii/&xp f ku]c& 
<c TYjv cfiuy.G'fAevyv TCV ptFaXev KoX'7rou y&ppyv, nut 
i( av/oi tcc [AefocXu KoX7ra, Kelt Tzig ttpe^rig cx,v]m Kei/uivoig, 
if TU TS KCtXoVflEVO) Kell TAJ TUV 'Zll/UVj CV T&ifyOl- 
“ KOVO-IV IX^VOCpuFdl A idtOTTSg k” 
We have already fpoken of this unknown land to 
the eaft ; but the land was unknown to the fouth 
like-wife, not only according to this defcription of 
Ptolemy, but by a padage of Marcianus Heracleota, 
who lived after him, and had fuch other information as 
k Ptolemy has placed this nation too far ead, as is evident 
from a padage both in Dionyfius and Rufus Feftus Avienus. 
Pie has made an imaginary parallel interfedl the 180th degree of 
longitude, and run north to the 63d degree of latitude, and 
bound both thefe nations to the eaft; and it would be difficult to 
conjecture the caufe of this miftake, had thefe not been the moft 
oriental nations he was acquainted with. This error appears to 
have bewildered all the moderns, who have attempted to afcertain 
the fituation of this country. But as we hope to be able to 
prove that the prefent kingdom of Cambodia was the Sina of 
Ptolemy ; the country of the Seres, by that rule, would be part 
of Thibet, and north of it to the 63d degree of latitude. But 
their true fituation appears to have been in fome part of the pre- 
fent Buckaria, to the eaft and north eaft ofSamarcand. 
1 Lib. vii, c. 3. 
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