[Footnote 6: In the history of the world I can only perceive
two navies on the Caspian: 1. Of the Macedonians, when
Patrocles, the admiral of the kings of Syria, Seleucus and
Antiochus, descended most probably the River Oxus, from the
confines of India, (Plin. Hist. Natur. vi. 21.) 2. Of the
Russians, when Peter the First conducted a fleet and army
from the neighborhood of Moscow to the coast of Persia,
(Bell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 325 - 352.) He justly observes,
that such martial pomp had never been displayed on the
Volga.]