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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1884.
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Askatangkas as far as the station at Mount | between the north of the Oxos and the river Imaos, whence traders start on their journey to Rhà according to such an outline. Sêra which lies in 140° E. 43° N., and through 2. The bend of the River Rhâ which marks Mount Imaos as it ascends to the north as far as the boundary of Sarmatia and the limit of the country which lies in 143 5.35°N., Skythia............................ 85° 54° and on the south by Imaos itself along the line with the mouth of the river adjoining the limits that have been stated.
Rhå which lies in ......... 87° 30 48° 50 2. The country of the Sakai is inhabited
of the Sakai is inhabited Mouth of the river Rhymby nomads. They have no towns, but dwell in mos
48° 45 woods and caves. Among the Sakai is the Mouth of the river Daïr ... 94° 48° 45 mountain district, already mentioned, of the Mouth of the river laxartes 97° Kô mê dai, of which the ascent from the Mouth of the river lästos ... 100° 47° 20' Sogdianoi lies in ...................... 125° 430 Mouth of the river PolytiAnd the parts towards the val
mêtos ..........
45° 30 ley of the Komêdai lie in......... 130° 399 Aspabôta, a town ............. 102° 44° And the so-called Stone Tower
after which comes the mouth of the Oxos. lies in ........ ................ 135° 43° 3. The mountains of Skythia within Imaos
3. The tribes of the Sakai, along the lazartes, are the more eastern parts of the Hyperborean are the Karatai and the Komaroi, and the hills and the mountains called people who have all the mountain region are Alans, whose extremities the Kô madai, and the people along the range lie ..............
................... 105° 590 of Askatangka the Massagetai; and the and .............................. 118° 59° 30 peoplo between are the Grynaioi Skythai 4. And the Rymmik mountains whose exand the Toornai, below whom, along Mount tremities lie ..................... 90° 54° Imaos, are the Byltai.
and .............................. 99° 47° 30' In the name of the mountain range on the from which now the Rymmos and some other east of the Sakai, Aska-tangk-as, the middle streams that discharge into the River Rha, syllable represents the Tarkish word tagh uniting with the Daïx river. mountain. The tribe of the Karatai, which was 5. And the Noronson range, of which the seated along the banks of the Laxartes, bears a
extremities lie.................. 97° 53° 30' name of common application, chiefly to members
and ................. ....... 106° 52° 30' of the Mongol family--that of Karait. The name of the Massagetai, Latham has suggested, may
and from this range flow the Daïr and some have arison out of the common name Mustagh, but
other tributaries of the laxartes. Beal, as already stated, refers it to the Moeso-gothic
6. And the range of mountains called "maiza" and "Yue-chi-Getæ." The Byltai are Aspisia whohe extremities lie 111° 55° 30° the people of what is now called Little Tibet and and .............................. 117° 52° 30' also Baltistân.
and from these some streams flow into the CAP. 14.
River laxartes.
7. And the mountains called Tapoura whose POSITION OF SKYTHIA WITHIN Imaos,
extremities lie .................. 120° 56° 1. Sky this within Imaös is bounded on and .............................. 125° 49° the west by Sarmatia in Asia along the side from which also some streams flow into the already traced, on the north by an unknown Iazartes. land, on the east by Mount Imaos ascending to 8. In addition to these in the depth of the the north pretty nearly along the meridian of region of the streams are the Syêba mountains the starting-place already mentioned as far as whose extremities lie .......... 121° 58° the unknown land .................. 140° 630, and ............................... 132° 62° on the south and also on the east by the Sakai and the mountains called the Anarea whose and the Sogdianoi and by Margianê along their extremities lie .................. 130° 56° meridians already mentioned as far as the and .............................. 137° 50° Hyrkanian Sea at the mouth of the Oxos, and after which is the bend in the direction of also by the part of the Hyrkanian Sea lying Imaos continuing it towards the north.
