[103] Nearkhos, it is probable, put into the mouth of the river now called by some the +Kisht+, by others the Boshavir. A town exists in the neighbourhood called +Gra+ or +Gran+, which may have received its name from the Granis. The royal city (or rather palace), 200 stadia distant from this river, is mentioned by Strabo, xv. 3, 3, as being situate on the coast. Ptolemy does not mention the Granis. He makes Taökê to be an inland town, and calls all the district in this part Taôkênê. Taokê may be the Touag mentioned by Idrisi, which is now represented by Konar Takhta near the Kisht. [104] +Rhogonis.+—It is written Rhogomanis by Ammianus Marcellinus, who mentions it as one of the four largest rivers in Persia, the other three being the Vatrachitis, Brisoana, and Bagrada. It is the river at the mouth of which is Bender-Righ or Regh, which is considered now as in the days of Nearkhos to be a day’s sail from Bushire. [105] “The measures here are neglected in the Journal, for we have only 800 stadia specified from Mesambria to Brizana, and none from Brizana to the Arosis; but 800 stadia are short of 50 miles, while the real distance from Mesambria (Bushir) to the Arosis with the winding of the coast is above 140. In these two points we cannot be mistaken, and therefore, besides the omission of the interval between Brizana and the Arosis, there must be some defect in the Journal for which it is impossible now to account.”—Vincent, 1. p. 405. [106] Another form of the name of this river is the Aroatis. It answers to the Zarotis of Pliny, who states that the navigation at its mouth was difficult, except to those well acquainted with it. It formed the boundary between Persis and Susiana. The form Oroatis corresponds to the Zend word _aurwat_ ‘swift.’ It is now called the Tâb. [107] On this point compare Strabo, bk. xv. 3, 1. [108] It has been conjectured that the text here is imperfect. Schmieder opines that the story about the ambassadors is a fiction. [109] The bay of Kataderbis is that which receives the streams of the +Mensureh+ and +Dorak+; at its entrance lie two islands, Bunah and Ḍeri, one of which is the Margastana of Arrian. [110] +Diridôtis+ is called by other writers Terêdon, and is said to have been founded by Nabukhodonosor. Mannert places it on the island now called +Bubian+; Colonel Chesney, however, fixes its position at +Jebel Sanâm+, a gigantic mound near the Pallacopas branch of the Euphrates, considerably to the north of the embouchure of the present Euphrates. Nearkhos had evidently passed unawares the stream of the Tigris and sailed too far westward. Hence he had to retrace his course, as mentioned in the next chapter.