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this coaftj and the metropolis Sina or Thina the 
fame as the modern city of Cambodia?. 
Greek-Street, Soho. 
Feb. 1. 1767. 
y ®woc, by the author of the Periplus Maris Erythraei, p. 36. 
fxer[>o 7 roXii and ©ttvai by Ptolemy, lib. i. c. 17. Qeivou by 
Marcianus Heracleota, p. 14. 0^, acervus, cumulus, coll is , &c. 
it might receive this name becaufe it ftands upon amount, ac- 
cording to Mandefloe, vol. I. p. 331. to fecure it from inun- 
dations. None of all thefe ancient writers of geography have 
ever called this country 0 nwv but Agathamerus, lib. ii. c. 7. 
and it would appear he did it by miftakej for its proper name 
was certainly Metropolis Xivuv, and ©nat was only an accidental 
one, which it afterwards received to exprefs more figuratively its 
fituation. 
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