44. See Recherches sur les Chinois et les Egyptiens, tom.
ii. p. 81-102. The anonymous author is well acquainted with
the globe in general, and with Germany in particular: with
regard to the latter, he quotes a work of M. Hanselman, but
he seems to confound the wall of Probus, designed against
the Alemanni, with the fortification of the Mattiaci,
constructed in the neighbourhood of Frankfort against the
Catti. .