- MOON, MOUNTAINS OF THE
- a range of mountains supposed by Ptolemy and early geographers to stretch across Africa from Abyssinia to Guinea, now variously identified as the Kenia, Kilimanjaro, Ruwenzori, &c.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
MOON, MOUNTAINS OF THE
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