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114 The goods, he ays, were brought out of India in even days to the Icarus, a river of Bactriana, which falls into the Oxus, and conveyed down the river lat mentioned into the Capian ea, acros which they were carried to the mouth of the Cyrus, and up that river to a place, that was five days' journey by land to the Phais, down which they were carried to its entrance into the Euxine ea, from whence they were ent to Byzantium, and other places.

Strabo gives much the ame account. He ays, that Ariitobulus and Eratothenes had written, from the information of Patrocles, whoe authority he highly commends in another part of his work, that Indian commodities were carried down both the Ochus and the Oxus, into the Capian ea, and tranported from thence to the oppoite coat of Albania, and from thence, by means of the Cyrus, and the avenues afforded by that river, carried into the Euxine ea.

It appears, that the Phaiis erved as the means of conveyance, being navigable as high up its tream as Sarapana, to which place the goods were carried in four days, by land-carriage, in waggons from the Cyrus. Thee accounts of Pliny and Strabo do nor materially vary from one another.

The river Icarus, mentioned by Pliny, is to be found in Solinus; but I think it is only copied from Pliny. Ptolemy pecifies a country called Guriana, on the banks of a river, that falls into the Oxus;