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plint's natueal history. [Book VI. 
tribes witli numerous names, and on the other, the Abzoae, who 
are also divided into an equal number. At the entrance, on 
the right hand side,^^ dwell the TJdini, a Scythian tribe, at the 
very angle of the mouth. Then along^' the coast there are the 
Albani, the descendants of Jason, it is said ; that part of the sea 
which lies in front of them, bears the name of * Albanian.' This 
nation, which lies along the Caucasian chain, comes down, as 
we have previously stated, as far as the river Cyrus, which 
forms the boundary of Armenia and Iberia. Above the mari- 
time coast of Albania and the nation of the TJdini, the Sarmatae, 
the Utidorsi, and the Aroteres stretch along its shores, and in 
their rear the Sauromatian Amazons, already spoken of.^^ 
The rivers which run through Albania in their course to the 
sea are the Casius^^ and the Albanus,^^ and then the Cambyses,^* 
which rises in the Caucasian mountains, and next to it the 
Cyrus, rising in those of the Coraxici, as already men- 
tioned.^^ Agrippa states that the whole of this coast, inac- 
cessible from rocks of an immense height, is four hundred and 
twenty-five miles in length, beginning from the river Casius. 
After we pass the mouth of the Cyrus, it begins to be called 
the ^ Caspian ,Sea;' the Caspii being a people who dwell upon 
its shores. 
In this place it may be as well to correct an error into which 
many persons have fallen, and even those who lately took part 
with Corbulo in the Armenian war. The Gates of Iberia, 
which we have mentioned as the Caucasian, they have 
spoken of as being called the * Caspian,' and the coloured 
plans which have been sent from those parts to Eome have 
that name written upon them. The menaced expedition, 
too, that was contemplated by the Emperor ^Nero, was said 
to be designed to extend as far as the Caspian Gates, where- 
2^ On a promontory, on the right or eastern side of the mouth of the 
river Volga. 
27 He here means the western shores of the Caspian, after leaving the 
mouth of the Volga. 
2« In c. 11. 
29 See the end of c. 14. 
The Csesius of Ptolemy, and the Koisou of modern times. 
^1 Probably the modern river Samour. 
32 It is difficult to determine the exact locality of this river, but it would 
seen^o have been near the Amardus, the modern Sefid-Rud. 
33^n c. 10. 
^ See the beginning of c. 12, and the Note, p. 21. 
