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Betwixt this river Indus, and another to the west called Tigris, both of which empty themselves into the Red Sea , are the countries of Orocassia, Parthia, Asilia, Pasitha, and Media, though some writers call the whole of this land Media or Assyria . The fields are much parched by the sun , and the roads are very hard and stony.
The Persian gulf is here assumed as a part of the Red Sea. He is here obviously enumerating the divisions of the latter Persian empire. Orocassia is certainly the Arachosia of the ancients; Asilia and Pasitha may be Assyria and proper Persia. The Saxon word is beorhta or bright, which I have ventured to translate parched by the sun, as this signification agrees well with the context. Barr.
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