A _Mappe-monde_ of A.D.1417, preserved in the Pitti Palace at Florence compromises the dispute by designating Sumatra _Taprobane Major_.

The controversy came to an end at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the overpowering authority of DELISLE resolved the doubt, and confirmed the modern Ceylon as the Taprobane of antiquity.

WILFORD, in the _Asiatic Researches_ (vol.x.p.

140), still clung to the opposite opinion, and KANT undertook to prove that Taprobane was Madagascar.] _Latitude and Longitude_ .-- There has hitherto been considerable uncertainty as to the position assigned to Ceylon in the various maps and geographical notices of the island: these have been corrected by more recent observations, and its true place has been ascertained to be between 5 deg.

55' and 9 deg.