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ifland of Sumatra, which fronts both the mod fou th- 
em and eaftern parts of Malacca. 
He has not in the lead; confounded this peninfula 
with the ifland, notwithstanding he calls them both 
by the name of Aurea ; the fird was upon the extre- 
mity of the ead ; the ifland alfo was upon the extre- 
mity of the ead, but it was hkewile under the very 
riling ol the fun. Had he not been acquainted with 
this didindtion, he would not have ufed the word 
but vvjtTov (fo it would have been), after this 
illand, but we fee that he fays it was, after this coun- 
try, and immediately without it, in fome place where 
the fea ended, where this city was fituated. 
This exadily agrees with the bay of Siam ; it lies 
after Malacca, for we mud pafs that peninfula before 
we can arrive at it ; it is alfo immediately without it, 
and towards the north in fome place where the fea 
ends. The bottom of the bay of Siam is 13 degrees 
north of cape Romana, and there the fea may be 
laid, without much impropriety, to endj more efpe- 
cially as in that place was fituated this city, beyond 
which we have no accounts of any further invedi- 
gations made in his days. 
This very concife but accurate narrative, at the 
fame time that it gives all the proof we can poffibly 
expedt that Sumatra was not at that time joined to 
the continent, fo likewife does it demondrate this 
metropolis to have been fituated fomewhere in this 
bay,; and although we might conjedture, with as 
great an appearance of probability from thefe circum- 
dances alone, that it was Siam, rather than Cambo- 
dia; yet from the collateral evidence already produ- 
ced, that they failed out of the bay before they arri- 
ved at its port, it is evident it lay fouth cad of Siam, 
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