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and the teftimony of Ptolemy and Mareianus Hera- 
cleota, who affert that the fame fouth eaft courfe was 
held in order to reach Cattigara, being added, it ne- 
ccflarily follows, that that port was Situated to the 
weft of that cape which faces Puli Ubi r 5 but as 
there is no city welt of that cape, on this particular 
part of the continent, except Cambodia, we may 
therefore reafonably fuppofe that city the antient me- 
tropolis Sinas s . 
It may be obferved that the ancient city of Thina 
and modern city of Cambodie not only agree in 
fituation, but alfo in the nature of their produce. 
Formerly “ they exported fine ottorC andflo wered 
r See Plate IX. 
8 Voflius wondered how any one could doubt that the antient 
Sina was the fame with the modern Siam, without giving any 
reafons at all for his conjecture. “ Quis dubitare poflit, quin ilia 
“fit ea ipfa,quae nunc Siam appellatur?” Vofl". Obf. ad P. Melam, 
p. 560. Lugd. B. 1748- Whether or not Cambodia had the 
fame name formerly with Siam, or was a province to it, is at 
this time impoflible to determine; but it manifeftly appears, that 
this metropolis was neither the prefent city of Siam, nor fituated 
in any part of the country now known by that name. 
1 OQoviov to cYipiuov feems to have been rather a vegetable, than 
vermicular production ; for, although it may fignify any fpecies of 
web, it more properly denotes fuch as are made of cotton or lint ; 
on that preemption, we have tranflated it flowere dmuflins ; for, as 
thefe webs were made in the manner of thofe by a people who 
were called the Seres, it appears by the following lines that the 
figure of flowers were interwoven with theirs : 
• tQvzz (SzpSxpz Eypcov, 
Ei/uctlu Tzu%x<n v zreAucSaiJaAa, TipntvTcc, 
E^o[mvz ?,siy.ccm^og assert xaoj}?j. 
“ gentes barbara Serum 
“ Vefles faciunr, varii artilicii, pretiofas 
“ Similes colore pralenfis lloribus herbae.” 
Dionyf. Perieg. ver. 752. 
“ muffins 
