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garding Alexander the Great himself, and not about his successors. Two 

 of these points you will find in the present paper ; one about Porus being 

 a descendant of Jajati and therefore a Paurava, the other about the 

 kings being Mapcets, which establishes the fact of Chandra Gupta being 

 contemporaneous with Alexander the Great. I will now add three 

 points in the Geography ; 1st, Shor-kat (the capital of the Pergunnah of 

 S/wr in Akbar's time) was the ancient Alexandria Soriane ; 2nd, The 

 Eavi formerly ran past Multan into the Chenab ; in fact it completely 

 encircled the Fort, which agrees with what is recorded by the Greeks of 

 the metropolis of the Malli — ' Alexander sailed round it.' The old bed 

 is traceable the whole way from Serai Sidhu to Multan ; 3rd, The 

 Alexandria founded by Leonatus on the borders of Gedrosia was 

 Alexandria Melane ; now Has Malan on the sea coast. 



" I have made some most beautiful discoveries regarding the early wander- 

 ings of the Solar and Lunar races, which will be rather startling perhaps 

 at first, but they are nevertheless quite true. Their interest depends on 

 the intimate connexion between them and the dominant races of the west. 

 Thus the Thracians and Macedonians were descended from the same stock 

 as the Afghans. This is not a conjecture, but a plain fact susceptible of 

 proof. Suppose we should come upon some people in a distant country 

 living on the banks of a * Eiver Thames' who called themselves ' men of 

 Kent' and Kentish men, what would be the inference P The Afghans, as 

 you are aware, call themselves Pashtun and Pakhtun (Pathun or Pathan) 

 and they live on the river Indus or Abi-sindk ! Now in Thrace there 

 was a river called A#«/0as, on whose banks live the Bkttovios from whom 

 Betdwoi of Bothynia acknowledged their descent. Here then we have 

 both JBeitun and Bistun on the Assinthus Eiver. 



"This is one proof out of many. The Thracians and Bithynians 

 had cities called Nysa, with the worship of Dionysus, as had also the 

 people of the Kabul river. I have traced the connecting links of the 

 chain from the Indus to the Atlantic, and I think that I can establish the 

 migration of the Solar race through all the countries which they must have 

 visited. Thus the. Kaspaturos or Kas Pakturas of India re-appears vnKata- 

 patuha (or Cappadocia) in Karpathos Insula, and in the Karpathee 

 montes, or modern Krapack. This subject alone will require a single volume. 



" But it is the religion, and not the Geography, that affords the most in- 

 teresting illustrations. Thus Alexander's historians relate that Abbissares 

 that is the king of Sabissa kept a huge dragon, and that Taxiles kept 

 another, whose worship was similar to that of Dionysus. Eemembering that 

 Sabazios is a name of Dionysus ; and that Sabas is the name of a snake in 



