Chap. 25.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC 5^ 



naracotis,^^ and Ophradus ; and then to Prophthasia,^- a city of 

 the Zaraspades, the Drangae,^^ the Evergetae,^^ the Zarangae, 

 and the Gedrusi f^ the towns of Pucolis, Lyphorta, the desert 

 of the Methorgi,^^ the river Manais,^' the nation of the 

 Acutri, the river Eorum, the nation of the Orbi, the Pomanus, 

 a navigable river in the territories of the Pandares, the Apirus 

 in the country of the Suari, with a good harbour at its mouth, 

 the city of Condigramma, and the river Cophes f^ into which 

 last flow the navigable streams of the Saddaros,^^ the Pa- 

 rospus, and the Sodanus. Some writers will also have it that 

 Daritis^" forms part of Ariana, and give the length of them 

 both as nineteen hundred and fifty miles, and the breadth one 

 half of that^^ of India. Others again have spread the Gedrusi 

 and the Pasires over an extent of one hundred and thirty- 

 eight miles, and place next to them the Ichthyophagi Oritae,''- 

 a people who speak a language peculiar to themselves, and not 

 the Indian dialect, extending over a space of two hundred miles. 

 Alexander forbade the whole of the Ichthyophagi^^ to live any 



31 Ansart suggests that the river Pharnacotis is the same as the modern 

 Ferrichround, and the Ophradus probably the Kouchround. 



32 Ansart suggests that the modern name is Zarang. Parisot says that 

 it is Corcharistan. 



33 The inhabitants of Drangiana, a district at the eastern end of the 

 modern kingdom of Persia, and comprehending part of the present 

 Sejestan or Seistan. 



^•* They gave its name to the modem Eudras, according to Parisot. 



3^ It is doubtful whether these are the same as the Gedrosi, mentioned 

 by Pliny in c. 23, 24, Parisot censures Hardouin for confounding them, 

 and says that these inhabited the modern Bassar. In Dr. Smith's Dic- 

 tionary^ they are looked upon as the same people. 



3s Parisot says that this is the desert region now known as Eremaier, to 

 the east of Mount Maugracot. 



3' As Parisot remarks, our author is now approaching the sea-shore ; 

 these places, however, do not appear to have been identified. 



^ Not the same as the river Cophen or Cophes mentioned in c. 24, the 

 modern Kabul. Hardouin takes it to be the same as the Arbis or Arabius 

 of Ptolemy, the modern Hilmend or Ilmend. 



3^ Parisot seems to think that the modern names of these rivers are the Sal, 

 the Ghir, and the Ilmentel, which, according to him, flow into the Ilmend. 



*" Situate, according to Ptolemy, in the eastern parts of Media. 



*i For this measurement see c. 21. 



*2 Meaning the " Fish-eating Mountaineers." According to Parisot 

 they occupied the site of the modern Dulcidan, and Goadel, which are 

 bounded by mountains, whence the name. 



*3 Not only the Oritae, but all those mentioned in the following Chap- 

 ter. For further particulars as to the Ichthyophagi, see B. vii. c. 2. 



