(6, 7) From this bay the coast of the gulf, according to our author, has a more easterly direction to the Straits, the distance to which from Adouli is stated at 4,000 stadia, an estimate much too liberal. In all this extent of coast the _Periplûs_ mentions only the bay of the Opsian-stones and conducts us at once from thence to Aualités at the straits. Strabo however, and Juba, and Pliny, and Ptolemy mention several places in this tract, such as +Arsinoë+, +Berenîkê+, +Epideirês+, the Grove of Eumenês, the Chase of Puthangelos, the Territory of the Elephantophagoi, &c. The straits are called by Ptolemy +Deirê+ or +Dêrê+ (_i. e._ the neck), a word which from its resemblance in sound to the Latin _Dirae_ has sometimes been explained to mean “the terrible.” (I. xv. 11; IV. vii. 9; VIII. xvi. 12). “The _Periplûs_,” Vincent remarks, “makes no mention of Deirê, but observes that the point of contraction is close to +Abalitês+ or the Abalitik mart; it is from this mart that the coast of Africa falling down first to the South and curving afterwards towards the East is styled the Bay of +Aualitês+ by Ptolemy, (IV. vii. 10, 20, 27, 30, 39,) but in the _Periplûs_ this name is confined to a bay immediately beyond the straits which D’Anville has likewise inserted in his map, but which I did not fully understand till I obtained Captain Cook’s chart and found it perfectly consistent with the _Periplûs_.” It is the gulf of Tejureh or Zeyla. The tract of country extending from the Straits to Cape Arômata (now Guardafui) is called at the present day +Adel+. It is described by Strabo (XVI. iv. 14), who copies his account of it from Artemidoros. He mentions no emporium, nor any of the names which occur in the _Periplûs_ except the haven of Daphnous. [Bandar Mariyah, lat. 11° 46´ N., long. 50° 38´ E.] He supplies however many particulars regarding the region which are left unnoticed by our author as having no reference to commerce—particulars, however, which prove that these parts which were resorted to in the times of the Ptolemies for elephant-hunting were much better known to the ancients than they were till quite recently known to ourselves. Ptolemy gives nearly the same series of names (IV. vii. 9, 10) as the _Periplûs_, but with some discrepancies in the matter of their distances which he does not so accurately state. His list is: +Dêre+, a city; +Abalitês+ or Aualitês, a mart; +Malaô+, a mart; +Moundou+ or +Mondou+, a mart; Mondou, an island; Mosulon, a cape and a mart; +Kobê+, a mart; +Elephas+, a mountain; +Akkanai+ or Akannai, a mart; +Arômata+, a cape and a mart.