ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. 6l7 



Cdmboj, to the westward or the Indus. This is the 

 same country, which, according to the learned, is 

 now called by contraction Coj. As ihe vowel is 

 very short, and of course obscure, every one of the 

 five vowels is indifferently used ; thus we have Caj, 

 Kij, or Kidge, &c. In the same manner the name 

 of the country called Ca?nis, Camus, and Cainbis, 

 to the south of the Caspian sea, is often written and 

 pronounced Cans. It includes all that mountainous 

 tract, which extends from Gazni to the sea, and 

 comprehended the countries known to the Greeks. 

 by the names of Arachosia and Gedrosia, written 

 also Kedrosia ; indeed, these two denominations 

 signify the same thing, the mountains of Coj : for 

 Moh in the language of the Balluches signifies a 

 mountain, and may be placed, either before or after, 

 thus Coj-Roh, Kej-Roh or Kedrosia ; Roh-Coj or 

 Arachosia. When they speak of the country in ge- 

 neral, they say Coj only : and when they use the 

 word Roh it implies the mountains of Coj. The 

 appellation of Coj is now restricted to that part 

 which is included in the province of Macrdn or 

 Mackrdn, called by the Greeks Macarene ; the 

 chief river of which, was the Maxates, now called 

 Macsliid (*). Gazni, the true name of which is 

 Sasni, was once the capital cityof that country ; 

 hence it is called with propriety S'asni-Coj by Ta- 

 vern ier, or Ciiakeni-couze : the Rattans generally 

 use k for sh j and very often also for s ; thus they 

 say, Pirkhowr for Pirslwzvr, Khehr for Shehr, a city. 

 Gazni is called Sasni by Chr ysoccor as ; and Shafni 

 or Chassenee, in Thevenot's colleftion ot voyages. 

 The present name is Gazni or Casni ; but in the 

 time of Tavernier, they said also Sacni or Jacni. 



Roh-Coj, according tothe Balluch pronunciation, or 

 Rozv-Coz, as softened by the Fatlans, is the Ara- 

 chosia of the Greeks i which includes the districts 



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