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190 190 On the Positioii of Susa. the people of the country rely on its digestive quality, and eat coarse food, and it is digested^.**^ " In this passage the excellent quality, on account of which the water of the Euleiis or Choaspes was drunk by the kings of Persia, is sufficiently marked : this property of the river, which the lapse of centuries has not changed, at once unties the knot, and would of itself suffice to deter- mine the identity of the two streams, if the name, Tigris of Shuster^ did not expressly testify that this river united with the Pasitigris is the same which Nearchus sailed up with his fleet from the sea, and down which Alexander sailed from Susa to meet him. The Pasitigris^ the modern Jerahi^ flowed into the Euleus^ the modern Karoon^ from the east, and since the river of Shiister is likewise called the Tigris of Sliicster^ the modern Persian geography has preserved the name of the Pasitigris which was used by Nearchus. So the Simois toward its mouth is called the Mendere after the Scamander which falls into it."" In a subsequent passage, after remarking on the want of an eminence at Sluts corresponding to the citadel at Susa^ he adds: ^^ Our authorities enable us completely to demolish one of the strongest arguments of our opponents founded on DanieVs Tomb^ which is shewn at Shus and not at Shuster. The following extract from the valuable list of cities by Achmed of Tus proves that Daniel's tomb was originally at Sinister^ and not at Shus^ and that the prophet'*s body was transported from Shuster to Shus in consequence of a great famine. " Shuster is a good city on the banks of the river Me- shrikan^^ in the district of Kusistan, This is the river on JjAsr:^^ y CJ^» j^l Jljc^ J :SlSj ^jij jUjjj A^J l^ Up ^J jd d^Xs^ Jv^L ^U j^lj ^ j^ 6 This is the name of the artificial canal, occasioned, as Mr Kinneir says (p. 99.) by the construction of the dyke called by the Persian author the Shadreivan : it dis- charges its waters into the Ab-zal^ half a mile from the place called Bundekeel by Mr K., which v. Hammer takes to be the same with one called Asker Mokerrem by the Eastern geographers.