[218] The supposed Eastern Ocean of the ancients.
[219] The imaginary passage by which it was supposed to communicate with the Scythian Ocean.
[220] This being in reality the mouth of the Rha or Volga, as mentioned in Note 18, p. 24.
[221] On the eastern side.
[222] Across the mouths of the Volga.
[223] On a promontory, on the right or eastern side of the mouth of the river Volga.
[224] He here means the western shores of the Caspian, after leaving the mouth of the Volga.
[225] In c. 11.
[227] The Cæsius of Ptolemy, and the Koisou of modern times.