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to increase the splendor and variety of this interesting scene. That 

 part of* the army, not on board with Alexander, had inarched 

 some days before, in two divisions, along the banks on each side of 

 the Hydaspes ; the one consisting of a considerable body of horse 

 and foot, under the command of Craterus, occupied that on the 

 right ; the other, under Hcphaestion, and comprising the major part 

 of the army, paraded on the left. Over the whole fleet Near- 

 chus presided as admiral, and Onesicritus commanded the royal 

 galley. 



The respectable author, mentioned above, with such deserved ap- 

 plause, having so recently gone over this scene of Alexander's exploits 

 in India, there is the less occasion for my entering with minuteness 

 into this portion of the Indian campaign; except, indeed, such parts 

 as more particularly concern his excursions from the river into the 

 country adjacent to it. Upon these, Dr. Vincent has but lightly 

 touched, confining himself more generally to the avowed object of 

 his learned discussion, the navigation of the fleet. I shall, how- 

 ever, omit no circumstance of importance; nor, though straitened for 

 room, aim to be concise at the expense of perspicuity. 



On the third day after the embarkation, the fleet arrived at the 

 point where Craterus and Hephacstion had received previous orders 

 to encamp on each side of the river, and at this point both fleet and 

 army waited two days for the arrival of Philip, governor of the pro- 

 vinces on the west of the Indus. On the arrival of his detachment, 

 Alexander immediately ordered him to march with that division of 

 the army to the Acesines, and, descending down the banks of that 

 river, to trace its progress and explore its windings. He likewise 

 dispatched Craterus and Hephaestion on other expeditions, and, con- 

 tinuing the navigation for five days longer, arrived at the confluence 

 of the Hydaspes and the Acesines. The resistless impetuosity and 

 terrific noise, with which these two great rivers rushed together in a 



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