Ask of God and He سل الله يعطك

will give thee.

8. Al-Mu'taşim

There is no god but لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله Al-Wathik .9

Allah 11. Al-Muntasir

God, Muhammad is

the Apostle of God.

10. Al-Mutawakkil-'al-ü Al-Mutawakkil-'alAllah, "He who puts his trust in God."

12. Al-Musta'ín

13. Al-Mu'tazz

14. Al-Muhtady

I am of the family of - انا من آل محمد الله

18. Al-Muktadir

,If thou hast faith توكل تكف

Allah.

thou shalt be satisfied.

tadid.

-'Aly son of Al-Mu على بن المعتضد

.Jafar trusts in God جعفر يثق بالله

O my hope, cause یا اصلی اختم بخیر عملی Al-Kabir .19

my work to end well

The remaining Khalífahs of this dynasty had simply their names engraved on their signets; but these very names have without exception some reference to trust, or faith, or belief in God.

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ART. VII.—On the Identification of Places on the Makran Coast mentioned by Arrian, Ptolemy, and Marcian. By Major E. MOCKler.

DURING the latter part of 1876, I travelled along the Makran coast from Gwadar to Jask, and as it appeared to me that the identifications of the various places on this coast mentioned by Arrian as having been touched at by Alexander's Admiral Nearchus, and others, mentioned by Ptolemy and Marcian, had not, up to the present time, been satisfactorily established by Dr. Vincent, Otter, Kempthorne, Müller, or, indeed, by any one who has touched on the subject, I collected all the names of places along the coast I could, and made notes regarding its physical aspect, in the hope of finding some traces of the spots mentioned by the geographers above alluded to, and which might be sufficient to fix their positions with somewhat more certainty.

In Dr. Vincent's exposition of the "Voyage of Nearchus," there is not after Kalama Kalamat1 any place, unless we accept Têsa Tês (mentioned by Ptolemy and Marcian), whose site is conclusively established; on etymological grounds certainly not one, and on topographical grounds or by measurement few are even admissible. The identifications of Kempthorne on this part of the coast are supported by no arguments, while those of Müller, as given in his valuable compilation of Grecian geography, appear to me to be based on wrong premises.

"Final "t" is constantly dropped in Balôchee.

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The results of my investigations, though certainly not fulfilling the expectations I had indulged in at starting, are given in the following paper, and may perhaps prove not uninteresting, the more so that some of the conclusions arrived at differ a good deal from any previously noted.

A map of that portion of the coast under discussion, according to the most recent surveys, with additions and corrections by myself, is appended, which it would be well to compare with those found in the works of Dr. Vincent, Müller, and Wilson.

The following are the tests I employ for the identification of each place:

1. Measurement, according to the distance given by the author quoted.

2. Topographical description.

3. Similarity of name.

The length of the stadium I take as about one-sixteenth of a mile, and, differing from Dr. Vincent in this respect, I believe that Marcian and Arrian used the same standard of measurement in their computation of this coast.

I commence by examining Marcian's itinerary, or rather a portion of it, and take as my starting-point Têsa, which can be none other than Tês. The order of Marcian's stages is from west to east, contrary to that of Arrian's. From Têsa Tês to the Kandriakes river the distance given is 200 stadia 12 miles: this distance, measuring along the coast-line, brings us exactly to a small torrent called Chandrishêp ("Shêp" in Balôchee means "a small torrent"), in the name of which Kandriakes will be recognized.1 From the Kandriakes river Chandrishêp to the promontory of Bagia, the distance given is 400 stadia=25 miles. Sailing along the coast the first promontory we come to is Cape Brês at 29 miles, and there is no other until we reach

1 What is marked on the charts as the Kenj (properly "Kênzh"-blown sand) river, and with which Dr. Vincent identifies the Kandriakes of Marcian and the Tālmena of Arrian, is only a creek up which the sea runs for about a mile during the monsoon, and is at other times dry, with a natural "band" of sand thrown up by the sea and wind across its mouth (hence its name). Its depth never exceeds a few feet.