1847.] Hi uan Thsang's Itinerary. 1205 



fusion we are not to wonder, when we bear in mind that the French 

 Editor had not the entire work before him ; but was forced to collect 

 the places named from various different books. I suspect the leaves 

 have become transposed and wrongly placed — for from Ghoor of Bu- 

 dukhshan we find ourselves carried suddenly to the west side of the 

 Caspian, and to this cause we may attribute the repetition just passed 

 of Indurab, Ghoristan for Kurestan, Ghoor for Khooei. Our Chinese 

 author having fallen on these names west of the Caspian, and affiliated 

 them on those he had already described east of the same sea. In 

 truth this is the grand error of all Moslem Geographical works. Mak- 

 ing no allowance for two places under the same name, always consider- 

 ing them as identical ; and carrying routes to and from the one, which 

 in reality belong to the other ; of this I could give many proofs. 



Vers Test, a 100 li on vient a 



123. Meng kian, (anciennement pays de Tou &\3yo 

 ho lo). Pas de grand roi : il est soumis aux Thou cd^* 

 kioue'i. 



Meng kian. — Moghan near Salian ; on the Kur, the celebrated 

 plain where Nadir Shah before the assembled tribes assumed the crown 

 of Persia. Placed by Edrisi as a dependent district on Azerbeyujan. 

 By Sadek Esfuhanee near the Caspian ; it is also entered in the tables 

 of the Ayeen Akbaree. 



An nord on vient a 



124. A li ni (anciennement pays de Tou ho oLr' 

 lo). Embrasse les deux rives de Fa tsou 300 li c};' 

 de tour. 



A li ni. — Aran, on the Nuhr ulras, Araxes. Arran, e>fy, a tract of 

 country situated between the provinces of Azerbaejan, Shervan and 

 Armeneyuh. To Arran belong the cities Mooghan, u^aj, and others. 

 — Sadek Esfuhanee. 



Lying on both banks of the Fatsou, or Oxus ; this is but a portion 

 of an old and far extended Geographical error, which connected, first 

 the Oxus with the Uturuk or river of the Torks, and then with or 

 without intervention of the Caspian, made the Araxes also a continua- 

 tion of the same river. The Chinese author may have found in some 

 works the Arran lying on both banks of a river, and from his own idea 



