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Rh Oxus; and Mr. Rennell's map pecifies both a ditrict and a city, named Gaur, or Zout, in nearly the ame ituation, on the banks of a river, that runs into the Oxus, near the city of Balk, or, as it was anciently called, Bactra, or Zariape, in 34° 30′ N. L. nearly, and 64° Long.

The ditrict of Gaur joins to that of Cabul, a celebrated place of trade in the Eat Indies, as low as the lat century. The paage of the goods from thence to Europe and Aia Minor is eaily conceived. They paed down the Oxus, or Jihon, northward to the Capian ea. The Oxus is decribed by Arrian to be the largeitof the Aiatic rivers, thoe of India excepted; and Strabo peaks of it, as convenient for navigation, inomuch that the goods carried down it are eaily conveyed into Hyrcania, and from thence, by means of rivers, to the countries lying on the Pontic ea. How, different mut the condition of thoe countries at that time have been from their preent tate! .

The breadth of the Capian ea, from the mouth of the Oxus to the mouth of the Kur, or Cyrus, on the oppoite coait of Albania, is, according to D'Anville, about 1800 tadia, or rather more than 210206 [sic] Englih miles. The Cyrus is decribed by Strabo, as the larget