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the Caspian Ports to Hecatompylos of the Parthians, there 

 are as many Miles as we have set down already. From 

 thence to Alexandria Arion, which City the same King 

 founded, 562 Miles: from whence to Prophthasia of the 

 Drangse, 199 Miles : and so forward to the Town of the 

 Arachosi, 515 Miles. From thence to Orthospanum, 250 

 Miles : thence to the Town of Alexandria in Opianum, 50 

 Miles. In some Copies these Numbers are found to differ : 

 this City is situated at the very Foot of Caucasus. From 

 which to the River Chepta, and Pencolaitis, a Town of the 

 Indians, are 227 Miles. From thence to the River Indus 

 and the Town Taxila, 60 Miles : to the noble River Hy- 

 daspes, 120 Miles: to Hypasis, a River of no less account, 

 4900, or 3900 j 1 which was the End of Alexanders Voyage : 

 but he passed over the River, and on the opposite Bank he 

 dedicated Altars. The Letters also of the King himself 

 agree to this. The other Parts of the Country were sur- 

 veyed by Seleucus Nicator: to Hesidrus, 168 Miles : to the 

 River Joames as much ; and some Copies add five Miles 

 more : from thence to the Ganges, 112 Miles : to Rhodapha, 

 119; and some say, that between them it is .325 Miles. From 

 it to the Town Calinipaxa 167 Miles and a half, others say 

 265. Thence the Junction of the Rivers Jomanes and 

 Ganges 625 Miles, and many put thereto 13 Miles more: 

 from thence to the Town Palibotra 625 Miles. To the Mouth 

 of the Ganges 638 Miles. The Nations which it is not irk- 

 some to name, from the Mountains Emodi, of which the 

 Promontory is called Imaus, which signifieth in the Lan- 

 guage of the Inhabitants, Snowy : 2 there are the Isari, Cosyri, 

 Izgi, and upon the very Mountains, the Ghisiotosagi : also 

 the Brachmanse, 3 a Name common to many Nations, among 

 whom are the Maccocalinga?. Rivers, Pumas and Cainas, 



1 " Ad Hypasin non ignobiliorcm xxix. mill, cccxc. Hoc est novem et 

 viginti milliaria cum trecentis et xc. pass." Note in the Regent Edition. 

 Wern. Club. 



2 Seep. 117. 



3 If these were a sect of the Gymnosophists, they are referred to by 

 Plutarch in his life of Alexander ; but Pliny seems to be of opinion that 



