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B. xi. c. viu. 9. SAC^E. MASSAGET^E. 249 Hyrcani are Derbices, that the Caducii are contiguous both to the Medes and Matiani below the Parachoathras. 9. These are the distances which he gives. Stadia. From the Caspian Sea to the Cyrus about 1800 Thence to the Caspian Gates . . . 5600 Thence to Alexandreia in the territory of the ) 6400 Arii J Thence to the city Bactra, which is called also 3379 Zariaspa ...... J Thence to the river laxartes, which Alexander 5000 reached, about ..... J Making a total of 22,670 He also assigns the following distances from the Caspian Gates to India. Stadia. To Hecatompylos l 1960 To Alexandreia 2 in the country of the Arii) f A t (Anana) ...... J Thence to Prophthasia 3 in Dranga 4 . (or according to others 1500) . . J Thence to the city Arachoti 5 . . 4120 Thence to Ortospana on the three roads from ] n rrf Bactra* / Thence to the confines of India 1000 Which together amount to . . . 15,300 7 1 There is great doubt where it was situated ; the distances recorded by ancient writers not corresponding accurately with known ruins. It has been supposed that Damgham corresponds best with this place; but Damgham is too near the Pylee Caspise : on the whole it is probable that any remains of Hecatompylos ought to be sought in the neighbourhood of a place now called Jah Jirm. Smith, art. Hecatompylos. 2 Now Herat, the capital of Khorassan. See Smith, art. Aria Civitas. 8 Zarang. * Sigistan. 5 Ulan Robat, but see Smith, art. Arachotus. 6 Balkh. See Smith. 7 The sum total is 15,210 stadia, and not 15,300 stadia. This latter sum total is to be found again in b. xv. c. ii. 8, but the passage there referred to has served to correct a still greater error in the reading of this chapter, viz. 15,500. Corrections of the text have been proposed, but their value is doubtful.