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Some Account of the Battle Field of Alexander and Porus, by Capt. 

 James Abbott, Bengal Artilery — Assistant to the President at 

 Lahore, and Boundary Commissioner, Hazara District. 



When Alexander, encamped upon the western bank of the Hydas- 

 pes, justly dreading to land his cavalry in face of a long line of ele- 

 phants, decided upon crossing at a point higher up the stream, he disco- 

 vered a suitable spot in a woody promontory of the western bank, 

 opposite to a small woody island in the river. Leaving therefore Crate- 

 rus with a small column in his standing camp at Jelum to mask the 

 movement, he, in the darkness of a night-storm, aided by the uproar of 

 the elephants, conveyed to the promontory the flower of his army ; and 



