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CAMBODIA

Volume 4 · 134 words · 1797 Edition

kingdom of Asia, in the East Indies, bounded on the north by the kingdom of Laos, on the east by Cochinchina and Chiapa, and on the south and west by the gulph and kingdom of Siam; divided by a large river called Mecon. The capital town is of the same name, seated on the western shore of the said river, about 150 miles north of its mouth. This country is annually overflowed in the rainy season, between June and October; and its productions and fruits are much the same with those usually found between the tropics. E. Long. 104° 15'. N. Lat. 12° 40'.

Cambodunum, (Itinerary); a town of the Brigantes, in Britain; now in ruins, near Almonbury, in York-shire. Westhefter, (Talbot.) Also a town of Vindelicia, on the Cambus: now Kempten, in Swabia.