Eastern Branch of the River Indus and Runn. 581 
NOTES: 
(A.) Dr. Vincent, who has written on the expedition of ALEXANDER the Great, believes 
that he extended his journey from the Indus into Cutch, which was the “wltima Thule” of 
the Greeks ; but the learned doctor does not appear to be borne out in this conjecture by 
any of the historians of antiquity. It is to be recollected, that it was not in accordance 
with ALEXANDER’s own wishes to return from India, and that it was forced on him 
by the mutiny of his army on the Hyphasis, on account of the distance he was pro- 
ceeding from their native country, which his oratory, pointed as it was, was unable to 
subdue ; so that, as the historian says, he commanded them to return, His memo- 
rable speech, on descending the Indus from Pdttdld (the modern Tatta) to the sea, 
which took place before his assumed entry into Cutch, confirms the fact, that all his 
movements after that period were towards home, though they could not be called 
retrograde, He tells his soldiers «that they at last were come to the end of their 
toils, which they had so earnestly desired, and that nothing now could oppose their 
valour nor add to their glory,—that without fighting any more, or spilling of blood, they 
were masters of the universe,—that their exploits had the same boundaries with nature at 
and Roun, who must be allowed to have attentively studied the text, says further, that 
‘finding he had extended his conquests to the extremities of the earth on that side, 
he imagined he had completed his mighty design.” How can it be reconciled, therefore, 
that ALexanper persisted in a three days’ journey, with even part of his soldiers, after 
he had told them that they had reached the end of their toils, and their exploits were 
now bounded by nature, and that their conquests had reached the extremity of the 
earth, when every step he afterwards took would serve to belie his own oration, and 
to expose, for aught he knew, his troops to new fighting and spilling of blood ?—for as 
Cutch is by nature a strong country, and the disposition of its people has been always 
considered warlike, the inhabitants were not likely to be less so, at that time, than their 
northern neighbours, the Malli, Cathere, Oxydrace, &e. 
ALEXANDER, however, made a second voyage down the other branch of the Indus 
below Padttdld ; and though we have the names of the Sindomanni and Pdttdldns, or the 
inhabitants of Upper and Lower Sinde, yet the natives of Cutch are not mentioned,—a 
very unlikely omission, considering that, if that country had been entered, it was the very 
termination of the expedition,—a circumstance, above all others, likely to add to its 
notoriety. But the professed object of ALEXANDER, in sailing down the eastern branch 
of the Indus, was to seek for bays and creeks on the sea-coast, and to explore which of 
the two branches of the Indus would afford the greatest facilities for the passage of his 
fleet, for ARRIAN says, ‘he had a vast ambition of sailing all through the sea from India 
to Persia, to prove that the Indian Gulf had a communication with the Persian,” No 
allusion is made to the conqueror’s desire to penetrate farther into India, and the his- 
torian goes on to state that ‘‘ when near the mouth of the river he came to a lake formed 
either by the river spreading wide over a flat country, or by additional streams flowing 
in from the adjacent parts, and making it appear like a bay in the sea,” and here it was 
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