[3111] Because it is necessarily purer than that found upon the sand.
[3112] The description is not sufficiently clear to enable us to identify these lakes with certainty. Ajasson thinks that one of them may be the Lake of Badakandir in the Khanat of Bokhara; and the other the lake that lies between Ankhio and Akeha, in the west of the territory of Balkh, and near the Usbek Tartars.
[3113] “Sale exæstuant.”
[3114] In consequence of the intense heat.
[3115] All these regions, Ajasson remarks, are covered with salt. An immense desert of salt extends to the north-east of Irak-Adjemi, and to the north of Kerman, between Tabaristan, western Khoracan, and Khohistan.
[3116] Identified by Ajasson with the Herat and the Djihoun. He thinks that it is of some of the small affluents of this last that Pliny speaks.
[3117] “Lapis specularis.”
[3118] A “crumb” properly, in the Latin language.
[3119] See B. vi. c. 32.
[3120] More commonly known as Jupiter Hammon.