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Anabasis. Modem Names. 



Village of Cuiiaxa. Kan of Arrowsmith. 



Sittace. Jarjaryah. 



Opis. Vicinity of Koote. 



Physcus. North branch of the Hud. 



Zates, corruptly wrote Zabatus. Duallah. 



Caenae. Cochi, western suburb of Ctesi- 



phon. 



Larissa and Mespila. Bagdad, and a little beyond. 



Carduchian Mountains. Hamrun hills. 



Passage of the Centrites. Altun Kupri, or the Golden 



Bridge. 



Centrites. The Little Zab. 



Teleboas. Southern branch of the Zab. 



Euphrates. The Kiaree river. 



Phasis. The Koshab, E. of the Van lake. 

 Arasus, wrongly wrote Harpasus. The Aras. 



City of Gymnias. Ispira. 



River of the Macrones. The Apsarus. 



Thecha Mountain. Ridge W. of the Apsarus. 



We have thus endeavoured to give an outline of Mr. Williams' 

 supposed line of retreat of the Ten Thousand, and whether his 

 theory be right or wrong, it is at least plausible and ingenious ; and 

 if it should hereafter be proved to be erroneous, as it is much easier 

 to demolish a wrong theory than erect a true hypothesis, it will be 

 no disgrace for him to have failed in attempting to accomplish that 

 which has hitherto baffled the most erudite commentators and the 

 ablest geographers of modern times. We recommend the book as 

 worthy the attention of scholars and geographers, and assure the 

 reader that he will find a vast store of geographical information, 

 diligently collected from classical and oriental geographers, and 

 brought to bear upon the main topics he endeavours to establish 

 and illustrate. Having said thus much in commendation of the 

 performance, impartiality requires us to say that on many points 

 we completely dissent from Mr. WiUiams ; but our prescribed li- 

 mits will neither allow space to state them, nor give our reasons of 

 dissent. We cannot help thinking that in some instances Mr. Wil- 

 liams is unnecessarily severe on his predecessors in the path of 

 comparative geography, and that at times he betrays a strong love 

 of hypothesis, and a disposition to make every thing bend to a fa- 

 vourite notion, and even to alter the text of an ancient author, 

 when the received reading appears obviously adverse to his theory, 

 thus verifying an old proverb, that " if Mahomet cannot go to the 

 mountains, the mountains must come to him." As a notorious in- 

 stance of this, is an attempted substitution of the name Goi-dycei 

 for Garamaei in the text of Ptolemy, where he is describing Assy- 

 ria. Chap I. Tab. V. of Asia, p. 141. EcL Magini. 



