WESTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



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with the fovereignty of the whole country, as far as the 

 Hypbafis, 



During his ftay in thefe parts, he founded another Alexan- 

 dria, between the forks of the Indus and Acefines. The 

 niodern name of the place feems, by Mr. ReniiePs map, to 

 be Feb. 



It does not appear that ever he faw the Hefudriis, which, 

 according to Pliny, was a difcovery of Seleucus Nicator, one of 

 his ableft officers, and his fucceffor in part of his dominions, 

 and particularly of thofe between the Euphrates and the liidus : 

 He feems to have fucceeded alfo to the ambition of his mafter, for 

 he meditated the conqueft of India, or at left of re-conquering 

 thofe provinces beyond the Indus fubdued by Alexander, but 

 which, foon after his retreat, were recovered by Sandracotta, Sandracotta. 

 an Indian of mean birth, but who, by his abilities, had rendered 

 himfelf mafter of all //;^/Vz. Seleucus ioxmA this new monarch 

 fo very powerful, that he did not venture to attack him. He 

 entered into a treaty with him, and agreed to retire, on con- 

 dition Sandracotta would fupply him with five hundred ele- 

 phants ; and thus covered his difgrace with a fpecious pretence. 



Alexander began his voyage down the Indus about the end 

 of the month of October, and was nine months in the com- 

 pletion; not from the difficulty of navigation, for it might have 

 been performed in a very ffiort time, but from his ambitious 

 rage of conqueft and flaughter on each fide of the river. His 

 army marched, divided in two parts, on the eaftern and weftern 

 banks, ready to execute his orders, attended by his vaft fleet. 



One motive to this voyage was a fufpicion Alexander had 

 entertained, that he had found out the head of the iNile, and 



that 



