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PRIO´NOTUS MONS

PRIO´NOTUS MONS (Πριώνοτον ὄρος), a mountain in the southern part of Arabia, in the territory of the Adramitae, identified by Forster with Ras Broom, a headland forming the termination of a mountain chain and jutting out prominently into the ocean in long. 49°, about 35 miles NE. of Mughda. Prion was a river flowing into the sea near this promontory. (Ptol. 6.7. §§ 10, 13; Forster, Arabia, vol. ii. p. 204, seq.)

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