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hundred and ninety-nine ; from thence to the city of the 
Arachosii, five hundred and sixty-five ; from thence to 
Ortospanum, one hundred and seventy-five ; and from 
thence to the city built by Alexander, '^^ fifty, miles. In some 
copies, however, the numbers are found differently stated ; 
and we find this last city even placed at the very foot of 
Mount Caucasus ! Erom this place to the river Cophes^^ and 
Peucolaitis, a city of India, is two hundred and thirty- seven 
miles ; from thence to the river Indus and the city of Tax- 
illa^^ sixty ; from thence to the famous river Hydaspes^^ one 
hundred and twenty ; and from thence to the Hypasis,^"^ a 
river no less famous, two hundred and ninety miles, and three 
hundred and ninety paces. This last was the extreme limit 
of the expedition of Alexander, though he crossed the river 
and dedicated certain altars^^ on the opposite side. The dis- 
patches written by order of that king fully agree with the 
distances above stated. 
The remaining distances beyond the above point were as- 
certained on the expedition of Seleucus Mcator. They are, 
to the river Sydrus,^^ one hundred and sixty- eight miles ; to 
the river Jomanes, the same ; some copies, however, add 
See c. 25 of the present Book. 
29 A town placed by Strabo on the confines of Bactriana, and by Ptolemy 
in the county of the Paropanisidse. 
30 See c. 25 of the present Book. 
31 See c. 24 of the present Book. 
32 The present Attok, according to D'Anville. 
33 One of the principal rivers of that part of India known as the Pun- 
jaub. It rises in the north-western Himalayah mountains in Kashmere, and 
after flowing nearly south, falls into the Acesines or Chenab. Its present 
most usual name is the Jhelum. 
3i .The most eastern, and most important of the five rivers which water 
the country of the Punjaub. Rising in the western Himalaya, it flows in 
two principal branches, in a course nearly south-west (under the names re- 
spectively of Vipasa and Satadru), which it retains till it falls into the 
Indus at Mittimkote. It is best known, however, by its modern name of 
Sutlej, probably a corrupt form of the Sanscrit Satadru. 
35 See c. 18 of the present Book. The altars there spoken of, as con- 
secrated by Alexander the Great, appear to have been erected in Sogdiana, 
whereas those here mentioned were dedicated in the Indian territory, 
36 It does not appear that this river has been identified. In most of 
the editions it is called Hesidrus ; but, as Sillig observes, there was a town 
of India, near the Indus, called Sydros, which probably received its name 
from this river. 
