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the conqueror. This observation is confirmed by an attention to geo- 

 graphical circumstances ; for, thus we read in the excellent little 

 treatise so frequently above referred to : " We may place the large 

 province of SIND next to Segestan, because, though it is generally 

 reckoned a part of India, yet it comprehends both Mocran, the 

 ancient Gedrosia, and Multan, which have been considered as 

 provinces of Persia ; and here we may observe, that the Eastern 

 geographers divide the Indian empire into two parts, which they call 

 HIND and SIND. By Hind, in its strictest sense, they mean the 

 districts on both sides the Ganges ; and, by Sind, the country that 

 lies on each side of the Sindab, or Indus, especially where it dis- 

 charges itself into the ocean. Sind, therefore, including Mocran 

 and Multan, is bounded on the south by the Indian Sea, which 

 embraces it in the form of a bow : it has Hind on the east, and, on 

 the west, Kermau, with part of Segestan, which also bounds it on the 

 north ; but if, with some geographers, we make it comprise even 

 Zablestan and Cabul, its northern limits will extend as far as Cash- 

 mere*." Possibly, also, other causes, resulting from the proximity 

 of the two countries, might have operated towards strengthening 

 his idea of invading India, such as that constantly given by the 

 Asiatics, the withholding from the new monarch the ancient sti- 

 pulated tribute, and Barzaantes himself might possibly not have been 

 given up without menaces. 



It was during Alexander's stay among the Arians and Arachosians, 

 at the close of the present year, that a spirit of mutiny and dis- 

 affection, from the great length of the campaign, began very generally 

 to pervade the Macedonian army. His partial adoption, though 

 extremely politic, of the Persian dress, and his assumption, in some 

 degree, of the manners of the conquered people, so contrary to the 



* Sir William Jones's Description of Asia, p. 8. 



