nding to the plain.

** The country of Misi adjoined Gizilbunda, Media, Araziash,
and Andiu. All these circumstances incline us to place it in
the south-eastern part of Kurdistan of Sihmeh, in the upper
valley of Kisil-Uzen. The ridge, overlooked by three peaks,
on which the inhabitants took refuge, cannot be looked for
on the west, whore there are few important heights: I should
rather identify it with the part of the Gordysean mountains
which bounds the basin of the Kisil-Uzen on the west, and
which contains three peaks of 12,000 feet--the Tchehel-
tchechma, the Derbend, and the Nau-Kan.

*** The name of the country has been read Giratbunda,
Ginunbunda, Girubbunda; a variant, to which no objections
can be made, has furnished Gizilbunda. It was contiguous on
one side to the Medes, and on the other to the Mannai, which
obliges us to place it in Kurdistan of Gerrus, on the Kizil-
Uzon. It may be asked if the word Kizil which occurs several
times in the topographical nomenclature of these regions is
not a relic of the name in question, and if Gizil-bunda is
not a compound of the same class as Kizil-uzen, Kizil-
gatchi, Kizihalan, Kizil-lok, whether it be that part of the
population spoke a language analogous to the dialects now in
use in these districts, or that the ancient word has been
preserved by later conquerors and assimilated to some well-
known word in their own language.

Mutarriz-assur at once turned upon the Medes, vanquished them, and drove
them at the point of the sword into their remote valleys, returning to
the district of Araziash, which he laid waste. A score of chiefs
with barbarous names, alarmed by this example, hastened to prostrate
themselves at his feet, and submitted to the tribute which he imposed
on them. Assyria thus regained in these regions the ascendency which the
victories of Shalmaneser III. in their time had won for her.

Babylon, which had endured the suzerainty of its rival for a quarter
of a century, seems to have taken advantage of the events occurring in
Assyria to throw off the yoke, by espousing the cause of Assur-dain-pal.
Samsi-ramman, therefore, as soon as he was free to turn his attention
from Media (818), directed his forces against Babylonia. Metur-nat,
as usual, was the first city attacked; it capitulated at once, and its
inhabitants were exiled to Assy