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lifted in the defigns he had upon that country, after 
his conqueft of Arabia 3 . 
There are remains of the priftine grandeur of Cam- 
baia b ; and its being famous in almoft the fame kind 
of produce is a ftrong indication of its obligations to 
the commerce of Cambodia. The marble ruins of 
an extenfive city have lately been difcovered c to the 
north weft of Cambodia, and to all appearance in the 
very route of thefe caravans j but on this cccafion, 
as on many others, we are but too lenfible of the de- 
ficiency of intelligence, and of the great havock of 
time, which has involved the tranfadtions of this pe- 
riod in almoft impenetrable obfcurity. 
At the fame time, that the antients extended their 
knowledge upon the continent, they muft unavoida- 
bly have been acquainted with fuch of thefe iflands 
as were moft contiguous to it. Accordingly Pto- 
lemy 11 has given us the names of leveral, in progrefti- 
on from the Ganges to Sumatra, which he has called, 
with two others he has joined to it, this 
fuppofition will appear more probable, as thefe ifiands 
are in the fame longitude with Malacca, and diredtly 
fouth of that peninfula. 
When they were upon that part of the coaft which 
faces Malacca, they appear to have proceeded along 
the remaining part of the north eaft fide of it, as far 
as Java, which he has named Jabadiu, lu&cthov e . 
a Trajan died in the 1 1 8th of the Chriftian era. 
b Hamilton. 
c Argenfol. 
d P'tol. G. 1 . vii. c. 2. 
c Jabadiou fhould perhaps he rendered Javadiv, as in the Ma- 
layan language Dib or Dive fignifies an ifland, and Giava barley, 
which this ifland, according to Ptolemy, produced in great quan- 
tities. As Giava is derived from an old Perfian word of the 
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