Note 41 — CHAP. XV. TABRIZ.

“The sea of Kulzum,” is more appropriated by the generality of Eastern authors to the Arabian Gulph, to which, indeed, it is said to be attached, from the place of the same name on the shores; yet it is applied to the Caspian in a Persian map copied in the Oriental Collections, Vol. III. p. 76: and Khojeh Abdulkurreem, while he states that “the proper sea of Kulzum is in the Turkish empire,” admits that “the people of Ashreff” affix the name to the Caspian, p. 94. London Edit. 1793: and in a note to Abulghazi Khan’s History of the Tartars, the French Editor mentions it as the general designation among the Persians. p. 645.