Note (2) — 25.—Of a king’s son.

(2.) “Temurtapit.”—According to Sprengel (Gesch. der wichtigsten Geog. Entd., etc., 362, 99), the Iron Gate through which the author passed when on his way from Persia into Tatary, was not the Iron Gate at Derbent, in the Caucasus, but the Caspian Gate in Khorasan. Malte Brun (Précis de la Géog. Univ., i, 188) and Sreznevsky (Hojdenye za try mory’a, etc., 241) are of similar opinion, while Neumann has no doubt that the Gate of Derbent, called Demyr kapou, Iron Gate, by the Turks, is the “ysen tor” of the text, which, had it been other than that at Derbent, would hardly have been described as being near Georgia and Shabran.—Bruun.