Kitap 23
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After passing the strait which has been mentioned, one comes to the bay of Carmania facing the east. Then, a long distance to the south, the bay of Canthicus opens, and not far off is another, called Chalites, facing the setting sun. Next, after one has skirted many islands, few of which are well known, those bays unite with the Indian ocean, which is first of all to receive the glowing sun when it rises, and is itself also exceedingly warm.
6.13
And as the pens of geographers have drawn it, the whole circuit just described has this form. In the northern direction, to the Caspian GatesA pass in Mt. Taurus, between Parthia and Media. it borders on the Cadusii, on many tribes of the Scythians, and on the Arimaspse, wild, one-eyed men. On the west it touches Armenia, Niphates,A mountain of Armenia. the Asiatic Albani, the Red Sea,The Red Sea (Persian Gulf) is south (or south-west) of the Persian empire; cf. Pliny, N.H. vi. 112, a meridie, and Mesopotamia is west. and the Scenitic Arabs, whom men of later times called the Saracens.Cf. xiv. 4, xxii. 15, 2. Under the southern heaven it looks down on Mesopotamia.Cf. xiv. 4, xxii. 15, 2. Opposite the eastern front it extends to the Ganges river, which cuts through India and empties into the southern ocean.
