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H., in making the Araxes rise in the same region as the Gyndes, is (quite needlessly) supposed to be misled by a forced analogy between the many mouths of the Araxes and the canalization of the Gyndes; these rivers, though at their nearest point 250 miles apart, and at their sources much more, both do rise in the watershed between Mesopotamia and the Caspian basin.

The number ‘forty’ probably is a round number meaning ‘very many’; so ‘Kyrk’ (= forty) is used in Turkish. We may compare without irreverence the ‘forty’ of the O. T. (Gen. viii. 6 et pass.).

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