iris.*? . traici in order that it might sail b
íi ¿íiáíit the army.1
w e are told* that, kc
«8 j* Pasitigri
hand, they passed
itself, and thenee ftW.sl
called Agines, vvbvi; » 1
i^s ?ssitigrig territory wo«M :.wv
g the country of Susa r. their left
he lake by which the T| ;m empties
■award to a village of] the Susians
r,dja from Susa.5 Nl w the latt<
whet Diri
- to
and
sonaewksf I t o # * fa order to enter the Pasitigris ] v
five geography, if this river be represented by the i $
Kámii)
will be found to correspond with the movements
The bed of the lake, once formed, according Polybius,
by. the Choaspes, Edams, and Tigris, may stilll be traced.4
It extended over most part of the country lying bj ¡ween Diri-
dotis and Agines (Ahwáz), and its waters were di charged by
the separate channels of the Euphrates, or rather tip the Shaft
el ’Arab and Kárún. The old bed of the Kávun sxists below
the site of the lake; and, uo doubt, sewed the fle< 1
fag to the htv.----" «gfcm appear to have ter nosted 60t
ty for the fi« ft
lie fleet
■:.if Ismail* I
#»íüa «« about the existing village 1
i tit«*, the ground becomes a little mcl re elev
ated.
>;• be 500 stadia Iww SnsaJ and the snp-
v ."«&* is 42 miles from thence by the air line, and
. o'.ie of the ancient beds of the Shápúr, following
arm^s
irse from Susa till it met the Karur
of the k fag’s ay
ucli seems
i Pasitigris,
lV built for
it after ascending the tew* *
iS*fcd his voyage fc,- f% ^ P v p S w j l
pass, iowifahi *ilv::re he /r f ||
fHHp to orde*.. A vrchus7 procM-
4|i. Ahwáz
fciííf
of the
id to wait
xm. thè fe í Ijjjtea, probi. ■ •i-.ug by land, as die passage
fetionedh ft being afterwards lithe city,