Tartar, River

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1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Tartar, Occhardus, a River of Serica, (a part of the Asiatick Tartary) from which that Nation took its name of Tartaria. The Country is bounded on the West by Mount Imaus, and on the East by China: now thought to be called Suchur. There is a City upon it, of the same name.