ON MOUNT CAUCASUS. 519 



Other times his head only is setn above the waters ; 

 from that circumstance the surrounding hills are 

 caWed Sereh Asp, or the horse's head. As the foal 

 was grazing one day in the adjacent meadows, he 

 was seen by a traveller, who admiring his shape, laid 

 hold of him and rode him for a long time ; when re- 

 turning the same way, he did Jelo-rez, or relax the 

 reins •* the horse ran away, and jumped into the 

 cave, or hole. From the circumstance of his relaxing 

 the reins, the surrounding hills are also called Jelo- 

 7-ez. They might be called with propriety Co h- Asp, 

 or the mountains of horse : and they were thus called 

 once, or Clw-aspa as it appears from Ptolemy, 

 who has applied this appellation to a city in the vici- 

 nity, but with greater propriety called Cophes by 

 Pliny ; a word obviously derived from Gopa^Gopha 

 pronounced in different dialects. Cup and Sup, Cuph 

 and Suff, or %uph. It is called to this day Zuffa- 

 or SJiehr-zuffa, the town o^ Zuffa. It is called %u- 

 pha in the Peutingerian table, in the road hom Fo- 

 ciana [Fusheiig], to Asbdna, or Cabul. The marshy 

 to ihtsowth oi Cajidahar, is obviously the Aracho- 

 sian marsh of the ancient geographersf . The an- 

 cient kings of Gor were natives of %iLffa, or %iLf ; 

 and gave that appellation to Gor, the place of their 

 residence, but now desolate : the place where it 

 stood is called Gor-moshcdn. 



> Ptolemy mentions a town called ^rtZc/io/^«5" ; but 

 surely Roh-Coj could not be the real name of a city, 

 which probably was Coj-vdra, or Cojhar, Cojwar, 

 and Cajluir : it is the Kodzar and Kozdar of Per- 

 sian authors ; literally the habitation in the country 

 of Coj, and, by implication the capital city of Coj. 

 The kings of the Yavanas, and Deo-ca'l-yun re- 



♦ Jelorez her dun in Persian, signifies to relax the rein^ 

 f This marshy lak« it mentioned by Ta vernier. 



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