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and runs in an easterly direction, receiving in its course the 

 waters of nineteen rivers. The most famous of these are the 

 Hydaspes, 68 into which four other rivers have already dis- 

 charged themselves, the Cantaba, 69 which receives three other 

 rivers, the Acesinus, and the Hypasis," which last two are 

 navigable themselves. Still however, so moderate, as it were, 

 do the waters of this river show themselves in their course, 

 that it is never more than fifty stadia in width, nor does it 

 ever exceed fifteen paces in depth. Of two islands, which it 

 forms in its course, the one, which is known as Prasiane, is of 

 very considerable size ; the other, which is smaller, is called 

 Patale. According to the accounts given by the most mode- 

 rate writers, this river is navigable for a distance of twelve 

 hundred and fifty miles, and after following the sun's course to 

 the west, in some degree, discharges itself into the ocean. I will 

 here give the distances of various places situate on tho coast to 

 the mouth of this river, in a general way, just as I find them 

 stated, although they none of them tally with each other. 



From the mouth of the Ganges to the Promontory of the 

 Calingi and the town of Dandaguda, 71 is six hundred and 

 twenty-five miles ; from thence to Tropin a twelve hundred and 

 twenty-five ; from thence to the promontory of Perimula, 

 where is held the most celebrated mart in all India, seven 

 hundred and fifty, and from thence to the city of Patala, in the 

 island just mentioned, six hundred and twenty miles. 



The mountain races between the Indus and the Jomanes are 

 the Cesi, 72 the Cetriboni, who dwell in the woods, and after them 

 the Megallae, whose king possesses five hundred elephants, and 

 an army of horse and foot, the numbers of which are unknown ; 

 then the Chrysei, the Parasangaa, and the Asmagi, 73 whose terri- 

 tory is infested by wild tigers ; these people keep in arms thirty 



68 The modern Jhelum. 



69 Some writers suppose that this must be the same as the Hydraotes, 

 or modern Ravi, because the latter is not otherwise found mentioned in the 

 list given by Pliny. The name, however, leaves but little doubt that Pliny 

 had heard of the Acesines under its Indian name of Chandahragha, aiici 

 out of it has made another river. 



70 The modern Sutlej. 



71 Probahly in the vicinity of the modern Calingapatam ; none of the 

 other places seem to he identified. 



J" 2 Ansart suggests that the Cesi may he the same race as the modern 

 Sikhs. 

 73 Perhaps the people of modern Ajraere. 



