[558] Erbil.
[559] Hamedan.
[560] Viz. at the Gates of the Caspian.
[561] This ancient embouchure of the Euphrates is now known as Khor-Abdillah.
[562] Read 3300.
[563] Thought by Col. Rawlinson to be the Chal-i-Nimrud, usually supposed to mark the site of the Median wall of Xenophon.
[564] Situated on the Tigris.
[565] A line drawn from the frontiers of Carmania to Babylon would form with the meridian an angle of about 50°. One from the Caspian Gates to Thapsacus would form with the parallel merely an angle of about 30°.
[566] Namely, 1000 stadia, by the hypothesis of Hipparchus, or 800 according to Eratosthenes.
[567] Or second side.