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the People. Seventy Judges are deputed to sit upon his 

 Cause; and if it happen that they acquit him, then the 

 thirty who condemned him are ever displaced from their 

 Dignity, with a very severe Rebuke. The King is adorned 

 like Liber Pater : but others in the habit of Arabians. If 

 the King offend in any thing, Death is his Punishment : but 

 no Man doeth Execution. All Men turn away from him, 

 and deny him any Intercourse, of even a Word. They are 

 destroyed during a solemn Hunting, which, it appears, is 

 exceedingly agreeable to the Tigers and Elephants. They 

 cultivate their Ground diligently. They do not use Vines ; 

 but all sorts of Fruits they have in Abundance. They also 

 take Pleasure in Fishing, and especially in taking Tortoises : 

 and so great are they found there, that one of their Shells 

 serves to cover a House. They count a hundred Years no 

 long Life. Thus much we have learned concerning Tapro- 

 ban. It remaineth now to say somewhat of those four 

 Satrapies, which we put off to this Place. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Capissent!, Carmania. 



BEYOND those Nations which border nearest on the River 

 Indus, the Mountain Portions of Capissaene possess the City 

 Capissa, which Cyrus destroyed. Arachosia, with a City, 

 and a River also of that Name ; which City some have called 

 Coph, founded by Queen Semiramis. The River Her- 

 mandus, which runneth by Abeste, of the Arachosians. The 

 next, which confront Arachosia southward, toward part of the 

 Arachotae, are the Gedrosi ; and on the North side the Paro- 

 pamisadae. The Town Cartana, named afterwards Tetra- 

 gonis, is at the foot of Caucasus. This Region lieth over 

 against the Bactriani : then its principal Town Alexandria, 

 named from its Founder: Syndraci, Dangulse, Parapiani, 

 Cantaces, and Maci. At the Hill Caucasus standeth the 

 Town Cadrusi, built likewise by Alexander. Below all these 

 Regions lieth the Coast of the Indus. The Region of the 

 Arians, scorched with parching Heats, and environed with 



