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wholly to Ptolemy. Hipparchus , whom we may confide*as Jiis guide, had taught that the earth is not furroundedby one continuous ocean, but that it is feparated bydifferent ifthmuies , which divide it into feveral largebafons; Strab. lib. i. p. u. B. Ptolemy, having adoptedthis opinion, was induced to maintain that an unknowncountry extended from Cattigara to Praffum on the fouth-eaft coaft of Africa ; Geogr. lib. vii. c. $ and AsPtolemy’s fyftem of geography was univerfally received,this error fpread along with it. In conformity to it theArabian geographer Edriffi , who wrote in the twelfthcentury, taught that a continued tradf of land ftretchedealtward from Sofala on the African coaft, until it unitedwith fome part of the Indian continent; D’Anville , Antiq.p. 187. Annexed to the firft volume of Gefla Dei perFrancos, there is an ancient and very rude map of thehabitable globe , delineated according to this idea ofPtolemy. M. Goffellin , in his map entitled PtolemaeiSyftema Geographicum, has exhibited this imaginary tractof land which Ptolemy fuppofes to have connected Africa with Alia; Geographic des Grecs anaiyfee.

NOTE XXXII. Sect. II. p. 74.

In this part of the Difquifition , as well as in the mapprepared for illuftrating ic, the geographical ideas of M.D’Anville, to which Major Rennell has given the fandtionof his approbation, Introd. p. xxxix. have been generallyadopted. But M. Goffellin has lately publifhed , “ The

tc Geography of the Greeks analyzed; or, the Syftem of“ EratofthenesStrabo, and Ptolemy, compared with eachcc other, and with the Knowledge which the Moderns havecc acquired ; ” a learned and ingenious work, in which hediffers from bis countryman with refpect to many of hisdeterminations. According to M. Goffellin , the MagnumPromontorium, which M. D’Anville concludes to be Cape