SUSA, the capital of the country called Susiana and Buis by the Greek geographers. Susiana comprised part of a mountain region between Babylonia and Persia, and it extended also to the coast of the Persian Gulf, east of the mouth of the Tigris. The Choaspes, now Kerkhah, flowed through Susiana from the mountains of the Uxii. [Bunnue.] Between Burden's and Persia there was a mountain tract, the passes of which were infested by robbers. The coed of Sedan's was marshy, as it still is. Besides the Choaspes, there were the rivers Coprates, the Relates, and the Pasitigris, now the Karen, which flowed from the mountains of the Uxii. The Eulatus and the Pasitigris aro both represented by the modern Karun, which was called Eulteus above the junction of the Cboaspes, Prtaitigris below that point. [llsaneen Paehalio; PERSLIA In proceeding from Dizful to Sue, and at the distance of 10 miles from Dizful, the great mound of Sue is seen. From the summit of the great mound Dixful is distinctly visible, bearing north 38° east. The Kerkhah River is one mile and a half west of the great mound of Sus. The Abl.shapur, a feeder of the Kama, rises about 10 miles north of Sue, and flows in a deep narrow channel past the eo.called tomb of Daniel, and past the western face of the great mound. It is navigable from Sue to its junction with the Kuran, and as its bed is deep and narrow, and nearly on a level with the surface of the plain, it is peculiarly suited for some kinds of navigatiou. The great
mound is described by Major Rawlinson in vol. ix. of the 'London Geographical Journal,' as forming "the north-western extremity of a large irregular platform of mounds, which appear to have constituted the fort of the city, while the great tumulus represents the site of the inner citadel." The height of the lower platform Is between 80 and 00 feet, and that of the great mound 165 feet. The platform itself is square, and measures about two miles and a half. The mound is 1100 yards round the bales, and 850 yard. round the summit. The slope is very steep. Major Ittawlineou saw on the mound a slab with a cunei form inscriptiou of thirty-three lines, three Babylonian sepulchral urea irniKodded in the soil, and in another place there was exposed to 'slow, a few feet below the surface, a flooring of brickwork; "the summit of the mound was thickly strewn with broken pottery, glazed tiles, and kiln-dried bricks.. Beyond the aerated platform extend the ruins of the city, probably six or seven miles In circumference : they present the same appearance of irregular mounds, covered with bricks ant broken pottery, and here and there the fragment of a shaft is seen projecting through the soiL"