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We will now return to our main subject. 



XX\'II. Xearchus writes that the length of the Carmania. 

 coast of Carmania is 1250 miles, and the distance 

 from its beginning to the river Sabis 100 miles; 

 and that from that river to the river Ananis, a space 

 of 25 miles, there are vineyards and arable land. 

 The district is called Armysia ; and towns of Car- 

 mania are Zetis and Alexandria. 



XXVIII. Moreover in this region the sea then The Red 

 makes a double inroad " into the land ; the name 'persian 

 given to it by our countrymen is the Red Sea, while ^'"'^- 

 the Greeks call it Erj^thrum, from King Erythras, or, 

 according to others, in the behef that the water is 

 given a red colour by the reflexion of the sun, while 

 others say that the name comes from the sand and 

 the soil, and others that it is due to the actual water 

 being naturally of such a character. However, this 

 sea is divided into two bays. The one to the east 

 is called the Persian Gulf, and according to the 

 report of Eratosthenes measures 2500 miles round. 

 Opposite is Arahia, with a coastline 1500 miles in 

 length, and on its other side Arabia is encompassed 

 by the second bay, named the Arabian Gulf; the 

 ocean flowing into this is called the Azanian Sea. 

 The width of the Persian Gulf at its entrance some 

 make five and others four miles ; the distance in a 

 straight line from the entrance to the innermost 

 part of the Gulf has been ascertained to be nearly 

 1125 miles, and its outhne has been found to be in 

 the Hkeness of a human head. Onesicritus and 

 Nearchus write that from the river Indus to the 

 Persian Gulf and from there to Babylon by the 

 marshes of the Euphrates is a voyage of 1700 miles. 

 In an angle of Carmania are the Turtle-eaters, 



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