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Deserts : but many shadowy Places lie between. Cultivators 

 are assembled especially about the two Rivers, Tonderos and 

 Arosapes. The Town Artaccana. The River Arms, which 

 runneth by Alexandria, built by Alexander. The Town con- 

 taineth in Compass 30 Stadia. Artacabane, as much more 

 ancient as it is more beautiful, which by Antiochus the King 

 was walled the second time, and enlarged to 50 Stadia. 

 The Nation of the Dorisci. The Rivers Pharnacotis and 

 Ophradus. Prophtasia, a Town of the Zarasparae. The 

 Drangse, Argetae, Zarangae, and Gedrusi. Towns Peucolais 

 and Lymphorta ; the Desert of the Methoricori ; the River 

 Manais ; the Nation of the Augutturi. The River Borru ; 

 the People Urbi ; the Navigable River Ponamus, in the 

 Borders of the Pandse. Also, the River Ceberon, in the 

 Country of the Sorarse; with many Harbours in its Mouth. 

 The Town of Condigramma ; the River Cophes ; into which 

 run the Navigable Rivers, Sadarus, Parosphus, and Sodinus. 

 Some will have the Country Daritus to be a part of Ariana, 

 and they set down the Measure of them both to be in Length 

 1950 Miles, and in Breadth less by half than India. Others 

 have said that the Country of the Gedrusi and Scyri con- 

 tairieth 183 Miles. Being past which, are the Ichthyophagi, 

 surnamed Oritse, who speak not the proper Indian Tongue, 

 for 200 Miles. And beyond it are situated the People of the 

 Arbians, for 200 Miles. Those Ichthyophagi Alexander for- 

 bade to feed on Fish. 1 Beyond them are the Deserts; and 

 then comes Carmania, as well as Persis, and Arabia. But 

 before we treat distinctly of these Countries, I think it meet 

 to set down what Onesicritus (who having the conduct of the 



1 Fish was a favourite diet, among the people bordering on the 

 Mediterranean Sea \ and therefore- the objection of Alexander could not 

 be to this, simply as an article of food. It may be supposed that various 

 tribes living on the sea-coast were accustomed to feed on this diet alone, 

 on the principle of caste or sect, thereby rendering themselves exclusive 

 in their communications with others. To remove such barriers to civilis- 

 ation may be supposed to have been the prevailing motive with Alex- 

 ander in this edict ; which regulated rather than forbade the use of a 

 wholesome article of food. Wern. Club. 



