The goods, he ſays, were brought out of India in ſeven days to the Icarus, a river of Bactriana, which falls into the Oxus, and conveyed down the river laſt mentioned into the Caſpian ſea, acroſs which they were carried to the mouth of the Cyrus, and up that river to a place, that was five days' journey by land to the Phaſis, down which they were carried to its entrance into the Euxine ſea, from whence they were ſent to Byzantium, and other places.
Strabo gives much the ſame account. He ſays, that Ariitobulus and Eratoſthenes had written, from the information of Patrocles, whoſe authority he highly commends in another part[1] of his work, that Indian commodities were carried down both the Ochus and the Oxus, into the Caſpian ſea, and tranſported from thence to the oppoſite coaſt of Albania, and from thence, by means of the Cyrus[2], and the avenues afforded by that river, carried into the Euxine ſea.
It appears, that the Phaiis ſerved as the means of conveyance, being navigable as high up its ſtream as Sarapana, to which place the goods were carried in four days, by land-carriage, in waggons from the Cyrus[3]. Theſe accounts of Pliny and Strabo do nor materially vary from one another.
The river Icarus, mentioned by Pliny, is to be found in Solinus; but I think it is only copied from Pliny. Ptolemy ſpecifies a country called Guriana, on the banks of a river, that falls into the
