xv ttOTES. 



(2 20 ) p. 154. I have illustrated these intricate orographical relations in 

 my Asie Centrale, T. ii. p. 429 434. 



C 221 ) p.154. Lassen,intheZeitschrift fiir dieKundedesMorgenl.Bd.i.S.230. 

 ( 222 )*p. 155. The district hetween Bamian and Ghori. See Carl Zimmer- 

 mann's excellent orographical tabular view of Afghanistan, 1842. (Compare 

 Straho, lih. xv. p. 725 ; Diod. Sicul. xvii. 82; Menn, Meletem. hist. 1839, 

 p. 25 and 31 ; Ritter iiber Alexanders Feldzug am Indischen Kaukasus, in the 

 Abhandl. der Berl. Akad. of the year 1829, S. 150; Droysen, Bildung des 

 Hellenist. Staatensystems, S. 614.) I write Paropanisus, like all the good 

 codices of Ptolemy, and not Paropamisus. I have given the reasons in my 

 Asie Centrale, T. i. p. 114 118. (See also Lassen zur Gesch. der Griech- 

 ischen und Indoskythischen Konige, S. 128.) 

 P) p. 155. Strabo, lib. xv. p. 717, Casaub. 



( 2 - 4 ) p. 155. Tala, as the name of the palm Borassus flabelliformis (very 

 characteristically termed by Amarasinha "a king of the grasses") ; Arrian, 

 Ind. vii. 3. 



O p. 155. The word tabascbir is referred to the Sanscrit tvak-kschira 

 (bark milk) ; see above, Note 143. In 1817, in the historical addenda to my 

 work De Distributione Geographica Plantarum, secundum Coeli, Temperiem 

 et Altitudinem Montium, p. 215, I called attention to the fact, that the com- 

 panions of Alexander became acquainted with the true sugar of the sugar 

 cane of the Indians, as well as with the tabaschir of the bamboo. (Strabo, 

 lib. xv. p. 693 ; Peripl. maris Erythr. p. 9.) Moses of Chorene, who lived 

 in the middle of the 5th century, was the first who described circumstantially 

 the preparation of sugar from the juice of the Saccharum offieinarum, in the 

 province of Khorasan. (Geogr. ed. Whiston, 1736, p. 364.) 

 P) p. 155. Strabo, lib. xv. p. 694. 



(^ p. 155. Ritter, Erdkunde von Asien, Bd. TV. i. S. 437 ; Bd. VI. i. 

 S. 698 ; Lassen, ind. Alterthumskunde, Bd. I. S. 317 323. The passage 

 in Aristotle's Hist, de Animal, v. 17 (T. i. p. 209, ed. Schneider), respecting 

 the web of a great horned spider, relates to the island of Cos. 



f 228 ) p. 155. So Aoxxos xp*>l jiarivo5 > i n the PeripL maris Erythr. p. 5 

 (Lassen, S. 316.) 



C 229 ) p. 155. Plin. Hist. Nat. xvi. 32. (On the introduction of rare 

 plants from Asia into Egypt by the Lagidse ; see Pliny, xii. 14 and 17.) 

 P) p. 156. Humboldt, De Distrib. Geogr. Plantarum, p. 178. 

 P 1 ) p. 156. Since the year 1847, I have often corresponded with Lassen 

 on the remarkable passage in Pliny, xii. 6 : " Major alia (arbor) porno et 



