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difcoveries produced during the interval from Pto- 
lemy’s death. He fays, “ we ought to conceive two 
“ unknown lands, one extending to the eaft, which 
“ the Since po fiefs, and the other towards the fouth, 
ic which flretches through the whole Indian ocean, 
fo that both thefe unknown lands meeting, form 
“ as it were a certain angle in the bay of the Since : 
il cvo yci^ ctFvu^ovg vurovcav yuq y tjjv TS^a^oi ryv avoc- 
“ TO^nv hyKovtruv, vj -ztragoiKiv etotixcipev t ovq "Zivag, kou t^v 
il TXCtty T7]V [A.H TVI/Jl^^/UV, ^Tiq 3 TClfJl UTOtCTUV T>JV I V$l- 
<l £ix,y]v Suhourcrav' uqs cruvci7r)ovTcig, iKci;S^y.q rag aFvu- 
“ q-cvg yug, Ka,9ci7re() two, yai/txv ot7ro]e\&iv tov tuv 
<{ Tivuv xo\ 7 tov m .” Now Cattigara flood upon a ri- 
ver which ran into this bay ; and as they had never 
failed fo far as the mouth of the river Menam, the 
accuracy of this defcription is very apparent. 
This country was bounded on the well by India, 
without the Ganges; or, as he has faid elfewhere, by 
the 173d degree of longitude ; extending north from 
the middle of the great bay to the country of the 
Seres, and the great bay, and parts adjacent of the 
bay of wild beads, and part of the bay of the Since, 
inhabited by /Ethiopian filh-eaters". Thefe two 
bays were, by this defcription, evidently on the eafi: 
fide of the great bay, and between Cattigara and the 
bottom, or between the prefent Ponteamafs and the 
mouth of the river Mecon. 
For the fame reafons therefore that the prefent 
Ponteamafs feems to have been the ancient Cattiga- 
K1 M. Heracleot. p. 29. 
B Captain Hamilton fays that the rivers of this country abound 
with many kinds of fiih, which are a conlidcrable object of trade 
among the inhabitants. 
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