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naracotis,^^ and Ophradus ; and then to Prophthasia,^^ a city of 
the Zaraspades, the Drangae,^^ the Evergetse/^ the ZarangaB, 
and the Gedrusi the towns of Pucolis, Lyphorta, the desert 
of the Methorgi,^^ the river Manais,^'^ the nation of the 
Acutri, the river Eorum, the nation of the Orbi, the Pomanus, 
a navigable river in the territories of the Pandares, the Apirns 
in the country of the Suari, with a good harbour at its mouth, 
the city of Condigramma, and the river Cophes into which 
last flow the navigable streams of the Saddaros,^^ the Pa- 
rospus, and the Sodanus. Some writers will also have it that 
Daritis^^ forms part of Ariana, and give the length of them 
both as nineteen hundred and fifty miles, and the breadth one 
half of that"^^ of India. Others again have spread the Gedrusi 
and the Pasires over an extent of one hundred and thirty- 
eight miles, and place next to them the Ichthyophagi Oritse,'*^ 
a people who speak a language peculiar to themselves, and not 
the Indian dialect, extending over a space of two hundred miles. 
Alexander forbade the whole of the Ichthyophagi^^ to live any 
Ansart suggests that the river Pharnacotis is the same as the modern 
Ferrichround, and the Ophradus probably the Kouchround. 
22 Ansart suggests that the modern name is Zarang. Parisot says that 
it is Corcharistan. 
23 The inhabitants of Drangiana, a district at the eastern end of the 
modern kingdom of Persia, and comprehending part of the present 
Sejestan or Seistan. 
They gave its name to the modern Eudras, according to Parisot. 
25 It is doubtful whether these are the same as the Gedrosi, mentioned 
by Pliny in c. 23, 24. Parisot censures Hardouin for confounding them, 
and says that these inhabited the modern Bassar. In Dr. Smith's Dic- 
tionary^ they are looked upon as the same people. 
26 Parisot says that this is the desert region now known as Eremaier, to 
the east of Mount Maugracot. 
27 As Parisot remarks, our author is now approaching the sea-shore ; 
these places, however, do not appear to have been identified. 
28 Not the same as the river Cophen or Cophes mentioned in c. 24, the 
modern Kabul. Hardouin takes it to be the same as the Arbis or Arabius 
of Ptolemy, the modern Hilmend or Ilmend. 
29 Parisot seems to think that the modern names of these rivers are the Sal, 
theGhir, and the Ilmentel, which, according to him, flow into the Ilmend. 
Situate, according to Ptolemy, in the eastern parts of Media. 
*i For this measurement see c. 21. 
^2 Meaning the " Fish-eating Mountaineers.'' According to Parisot 
they occupied the site of the modern Dulcidan, and Goadel, which are 
bounded by mountains, whence the name." 
^2 Not only the Oritse, but all those mentioned in the following Chap- 
ter. For further particulars as to the Ichthyophagi, see B. vii. c. 2. 
