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Volume 10 · 70 words · 1797 Edition

LUNÆ MONS (anc. geog.), a promontory of Lusitania. Now Rock of Lisbon. W. Long. 10° N. Lat. 38° 50°—Another Luna Mons of Ethiopia, from which the Nile was supposed to take its rise.

LUNÆ PORTUS, a very extensive port, or more truly a bay, of Liguria, between Portus Veneris and Portus Ericis, 20 miles in compass. Now il Golfo della Spezia, on the east coast of the territory of Genoa.