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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.
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.
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