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his preservation, and exhibited gymnastic exercises on the shore, he 

 ordered the ships to be unmoored, and joyfully resumed the naviga- 

 tion of the Persian Gulph. The whole length of the voyage along 

 the Carmanian coast from Badis, or Cape Jask, where it begins, to 

 Katai, (Keish,) where it terminates, is stated by Arrian to be three 

 thousand seven hundred stadia ; the Carmanians are represented as 

 living after the Persian manner, as using the same arms, and ob- 

 serving the same martial dicipline. They now entered on the navi- 

 gation of the coast of Persis, the province properly so called, a 

 navigation of four thousand four hundred, or, as amended by our 

 British Strabo, five thousand eight hundred, stadia, amounting to 

 three hundred and sixty-two English miles. The fatigue of this long 

 voyage, however, was mitigated by a pause of one-and-twenty days at 

 the mouth of the river Sitacus, (now Sita-Reghian,) down whose 

 stream Alexander, ever vigilant for the preservation and comfort of his 

 fleet, had contrived to send a large supply of corn from the interior 

 parts of the province. At this station, too, they drew on shore, and re- 

 paired such vessels as had received injury along a coast, recorded by 

 Arrian to be remarkably crowded with rocks and shallows. That coast 

 however, terminated at the river Arosis, the modern Endian. The 

 division of the coast of the Persian Gulph, along which the fleet bent 

 its final course, was the maritime part of the province of Susiana ; 

 and this last was the shortest portion of the voyage, being stated by 

 Arrian to extend from its eastern limit, the Arosis, to its western, the 

 Pasitigris, no more than two thousand stadia, or one hundred and 

 twenty-five miles. Every minute particular of this long and adven- 

 turous voyage, in those days of nautical inexperience, and on that 

 perilous untried coast, is investigated in such a masterly manner by 

 the author just referred to, that any more extended detail concerning 

 it, than what is here given, would be an unpardonable intrusion on 

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