Reys van Anthony Jenkinson, op ordre van de Engelse, Moscovise Maat-schappy, om een weg door Tartarie naa...

he cuts through the middle of this sea; which Scaliger had also done before him.

Besides this reason, which is the cause for inserting this discourse, it has been done because we obtained knowledge of these lands on the west coast of that sea, which have been very unknown to us until now, and which are filled in most maps with imaginings of monsters, with which geographers have hitherto tried to cover their ignorance. This is due to the belief held previously that the Caspian Sea was near China. For the rest, the account of Jenkinson agrees very well with that of Abulfeda, as the most accurate of all geographers, and the only one in whom we must trust regarding the placement of the cities of the East, which he describes as follows:

"This sea is salty, although it has no likely connection to the Ocean. It has 800 miles in length and 600 in width, in the shape of an egg. Also, there have been no lack of writers who measured it like a triangle. It has three different names, such as the Sea of Khazar, Georgia, and Tabaristan. The part of this sea situated more to the west stretches under the sixty-sixth degree in longitude and under the forty-first in latitude. The river Elcur, which Ptolemy calls Cyrus, flows into this sea 153 miles to the south of Derbent. From there, south-west, one finds the city Ardebil in the landscape of Mughan, situated further south. If one travels 230 miles from here along the southern coast, one meets the lands of Tabaristan and the landscapes of Elgel and Deilam. The coast stretches further to the East and towards the city Absheron, under the seventy-ninth degree 45 minutes of longitude and under the thirty-seventh degree 20 minutes of latitude. It continues to stretch to the East, until under the eightieth degree of longitude and fortieth in latitude. Consequently, it stretches northward up to 50 degrees in latitude, and at the same place it has