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Oyi the Posif/io7i of Sicsa, 187 the distance between Sardis and Siisa mentioned in the tablets of Aristagoras than that of Shuster. Secondly, the legend of the Prophet Daniel whose coffin was found at Shus; and thirdly, that Susa ought to be placed on a river which has its sources , in Medial I pass over Dr Vincent's reply to the first and second of these arguments, since the reader will easily guess them, as well as his own mistake, which Mr Kinneir corrects, about the name Kiczistan (which he confounds with Kuhistan and derives from the mountains which surround the province). But as to the river of Siisa^ Dr V. observes that it was the Euleus : that Nearchus sailed up to Susa ivithout enteriyig the Shat-ul-Arah ; which he could fiot have done^ had that city stood 071 the Kerah: and that, when Alexander descended the Euleus, he sent his disabled ships through the cut of the Hafar into the Shat- u]-Arab. And finally that a strong reason for placing Susa at Shuster occurs in Ibu Haukul, who says that there is not in all Ku%istan any mouTitain except at Shuster^ Jondi Shapour^ and Ardz: and as it is evident that the castle at Susa was a place of strength^ it is reaso7iable to suppose that it stood upo7i a hill. The words in Italics contain the strength of Dr V.'s reasoning, which however does not convince Mr Kinneir, who fortifies Major RenneFs position with an additional argument derived from the ruins of Shus above described, which is certainly very striking. He remarks, " Strabo tells us, that the Persian capital was entirely built of brick, there not being a stone in the province. Now the quarries of Shuster are very celebrated, and almost the whole of the town is built of stone : but there is no such thing in the environs of Shus^ which was evidently formed of brick, as will appear from my description of the pyramids that now remain. '* I must here stop to observe that Mr K. makes Strabo say something which I cannot find in his Greek text, and which materially affects the question. Strabo says of Susa^ " The walls of the city, and the temples and the palace likewise, were built, as those of Babylo7i, of brick and bitumen, according to some authors"'^ But he does not add here, nor any where ^ KaOd-rrep elp^iKaa-i Tii'es*