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5. Dagana, 8 town sacred to the Moon 126° Korkobara, a town...... 127° 20' Cape of Dionysos..... ......... 130° Kêtaion Cape 132° 30' Mouth of the river
Barakês.......... Sources of the river
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Bokana, a town...... The haven of Mardos or Mardoulamnê 131° 6. Abaratha, a town... 131° Haven of the Sun (Helion
130°
limên)................. Great Coast (Aigialos
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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
131° 30' 128°
131°
Megas)
130°
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Prokouri, a town The haven of Rizala...... 130° 20' 130° Oxeia, a headland Mouth of the river Gangês 129° The sources of the river... 127° 129° Spatana Haven......
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128° 30'
7. Nagadiba or Nagadina, a town... Pati Bay... Anoubingara, a town...... 128° 20' Modoutton, a mart......... 128° Mouth of the river Phasis 127° The sources of the river... 126° Talakôry (or Aakote,) a
2o S. 2° 20' S.
1° 30′ S. 2° 20′ S.
1°
N.
2o N. 1° 20′ N.
2° 20' N.
8° 15' N.
4°
4° 20'
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7° 15' 8°
8° 30'
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9° 40'
11° 20' 11° 20'
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mart... 126° 20' 11° 20' After which the North Cape.
8. The notable mountains of the island are those called Galiba, from which flow the Phasis and the Ganges, and that called Malaia, from which flow the Soanas and the Azanos and the Barakês, and at the base of this range, towards the sea, are the feeding grounds of the elephants.
[DECEMBER, 1884.
10. The inland towns in the island are these:
9. The most northern parts of the Island are possessed by the Galiboi and the Mondout toi, and below these the Anourogram moi and the Nagadiboi, and below the Anourogrammoi the So a noi, and below the Nagadiboi the Sennoi, and below these the Sandokandai, towards the west, and below these towards the feeding grounds of the elephants the Boumasanoi, and the Tarak hoi, who are towards the east, below whom are the Bokanoi and Diordouloi, and furthest south the Rhogandanoi, and the Nage i
roi.
Anourogrammon, the
royal residence..... 124° 10' Maagrammon, the me
127°
129°
tropolis Adeisamon Podoukê. 124° 3° 40'. Oulispada 40' 126° 20' Nakadouba... 128° 30' on the Line. 11. In front of Taprobanê lies a group of islands which they say number 1378. Those whose names are mentioned are the following:Ouangalia (or Onangana) 120° 15' 11° 20' Kanathra Aigidiôn.... Ornêon Monakhê... Amminê
121° 40'
11° 15'
118°
119°
116°
117°
12. Karkos.....
118°
116° 30'
120°
121°
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Philékos.... Eirênê Kalandadrous Abrana
Bassa
Balaka.... Alaba Goumara..... 13. Zaba.... Zibala
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8° 40'
7° 20
5°
8° 30'
8° 30'
4° 15'
4° 30'
40' S.
2° 40' S.
2° 30' S.
5° 30' S.
4° 20' S:
6° 30' S.
5° 30' S.
4° S.
1° 40' S.
on the Line.
125°
126°
129°
131°
133°
135°
4° 15' N.
8° 30'
11° 15'
135° Nagadiba..................... 135° Sousouara ........ 135° 14. Let such then be the mode of describing in detail the complete circuit of all the provinces and satrapies of the known world, and since we indicated in the outset of this compendium how the known portion of the earth should be delineated both on the sphere and in a projection on a plane surface exactly in the same manner and proportion as what is traced on the solid sphere, and since it is convenient to accompany such descriptions of the world with a summary sketch, exhibiting the whole in one comprehensive view, let me now therefore give such a sketch with due observance of the proper proportion.
This island of Taprobanê has changed its name with notable frequency. In the Ramayana and other Sanskrit works it is called Lanka, but this was an appellation unknown to the Greeks. They called it at first Antichthonos, being under the belief that it was a region belonging to the
