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Khan (who may complete the flmguinary triumvirate) croflld 

 the Indus at Attack in the fame manner. Tliis, by reafon of the 

 great rapidity of tlie ftream in all other parts, was fxX.ed on as 

 the moft convenient place, which long after induced the em- 

 peror Akbar to build the caflle of Attack for its defence againft 

 fimilar invafions. 



Opposite to Attack flood a very antient city, the Kilaube 

 Qi Ftolejny. This place is mentioned by two of the oriental hif- 

 torians, quoted by Major Rennel, p. 95, under the name of A7- 

 labj by wiiich the river Indus itfelf was generally known by the 

 old writers *. 



Alexander^ after fucceding in his paffage, got clear of the Panjab. 

 mountains, and arrived in the rich plains of Panjab, or the Five 

 Rivers, each immortalized by being a great fcene of atftion of the 

 Macedonian hero. The Hydafpes, the modern Behut, or Cbelum ; 

 the Acefines or Jenaub, or Cbeenaub, and the Hydraotes, or mo- 

 dern Rauvee; all which, after a long courfe, unite in one chan- 

 nel, which retains the name of Cheenaub, and after the jundion, 

 pafTes through the country of the Oxydract^, beneath the north 

 fide of Moultan, and at the diftance of about twenty miles from 

 that city, falls into the Indus about two hundred miles below 

 Attack, in magnitude equal to the Indus itfelf. 



On the banks of the Hydraotes ftood the city of the Malli, Malli. 

 Vv'ho with the Oxydraca, after a moll gallant refiftance, made 

 fubmiffion to Alexander. In the fame neighborhood ftood (the 

 fite now unknown) Sangala, inhabited by the Catb^ei oi Arrian, 

 ^i* 357> 3^4? Fxped. Alex, and the Catheri of Diodarus Siculusi. 



* Plin, lib. V. c. 28. Arrian, ExpeJ. Alex. i. 319. 

 -J- Lib. XV ii. c. 10. 



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