[468] Probably the modern Mosch, north of Mokha, near the southern extremity of Arabia Felix.
[469] Its ruins are now known as Dhafar. It was one of the chief cities of Arabia, standing near the southern coast of Arabia Felix, opposite the modern Cape Guardafui.
[470] Or Favonius, the west wind, previously mentioned in the present Chapter.
[471] The modern Mangalore, according to Du Bocage.
[472] Or canoes.
[473] The Cottiara of Ptolemy, who makes it the chief city of the Æi, a tribe who occupied the lower part of the peninsula of Hindostan. It has been supposed to be represented by the modern Calicut or Travancore. Cochin, however, appears to be the most likely.
[474] Marcus observes that we may conclude that either Pliny or the author from whom he transcribed, wrote this between the years of the Christian era 48 and 51; for that the coincidence of the 6th of the month Mechir with the Ides of January, could not have taken place in any other year than those on which the first day of Thoth or the beginning of the year fell on the 11th of August, which happened in the years 48, 49, 50, and 51 of the Christian era.
[475] An extensive province of Asia, along the northern shores of the Persian Gulf, supposed to have comprehended the coast-line of the modern Laristan, Kirman, and Moghostan.
[476] Ptolemy mentions an inland town of Carmania of the same name.
[477] Supposed to be that known now as the Ibrahim Rud, which falls into the Persian Gulf.