residence in the seventh century.  It is stated in the T’ang shu that
    Ibi Shabolo Shehu Khan, who reigned in the first half of the seventh
    century, placed his ordo on the northern border of the river Sui ye. 
    This river, and a city of the same name, are frequently mentioned in
    the T’ang annals of the seventh and eighth centuries, in connection
    with the warlike expeditions of the Chinese in Central Asia. Sui ye
    was situated on the way from the river Ili to the city of Ta-lo-sz’
    (Talas).  In 679 the Chinese had built on the Sui ye River a fortress;
    but in 748 they were constrained to destroy it.” (Comp. Visdelou in
    Suppl.  Bibl.  Orient. pp. 110-114; Gaubil’s Hist. de la Dyn. des
    Thang, in Mem. conc.  Chin. xv. p. 403 seqq.).—­H.  C.]

[2] Sic:  Per aliquot annos, but an evident error.

[3] J.  As. ser.  V. tom. xi. 449.

[4] The Great Plain on the Lower Araxes and Cyrus.  The word Moghan =
    Magi:  and Abulfeda quotes this as the etymology of the name.
    (Reinaud’s Abulf. I. 300.)—­Y. [Cordier, Odoric, 36.]

[5] Here is the passage, which is worth giving for more reasons than one: 

“That portion of ancient Babylon which is still occupied is (as we have heard from persons of character from beyond sea) styled BALDACH, whilst the part that lies, according to the prophecy, deserted and pathless extends some ten miles to the Tower of Babel The inhabited portion called Baldach is very large and populous; and though it should belong to the Persian monarchy it has been conceded by the Kings of the Persians to their High Priest, whom they call the Caliph; in order that in this also a certain analogy [quaedam habitudo] such as has been often remarked before, should be exhibited between Babylon and Rome.  For the same (privilege) that here in the city of Rome has been made over to our chief Pontiff by the Christian Emperor, has there been conceded to their High Priest by the Pagan Kings of Persia, to whom Babylonia has for a long time been subject.  But the Kings of the Persians (just as our Kings have their royal city, like Aachen) have themselves established the seat of their kingdom at Egbatana, which, in the Book of Judith, Arphaxat is said to have founded, and which in their tongue is called HANI, containing as they allege 100,000 or more fighting men, and have reserved to themselves nothing of Babylon except the nominal dominion.  Finally, the place which is now vulgarly called Babylonia, as I have mentioned, is not upon the Euphrates (at all) as people suppose, but on the Nile, about 6 days’ journey from Alexandria, and is the same as Memphis, to which Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, anciently gave the name of Babylon.”—­Ottonis Frising.  Lib.  VII. cap. 3, in Germanic Hist.  Illust. etc.  Christiani Urstisii Basiliensis, Francof. 1585.—­Y.

[6] Sbasalar, or “General-in-chief,” = Pers. Sipahsalar.—­Y.