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and runs in an easterly direction, receiving in its course the 
waters of nineteen rivers. The most famous of these are the 
Hydaspes,®^ into which four other rivers have already dis- 
charged themselves, the Cantaba,^^ which receives three other 
rivers, the Acesinus, and the H}^asis,"^ which last two are 
navigable themselves. Still however, so moderate, as it were, 
do the waters of this river show themselves in their course, 
that it is never more than fifty stadia in width, nor does it 
ever exceed fifteen paces in depth. Of two islands, which it 
forms in its course, the one, which is known as Prasiane, is of 
very considerable size ; the other, which is smaller, is called 
Patale. According to the accounts given by the most mode- 
rate writers, this river is navigable for a distance of twelve 
hundred and fifty miles, and after following the sun's course to 
the west, in some degree, discharges itself into the ocean. I will 
here give the distances of various places situate on the coast to 
the mouth of this river, in a general way, just as I find them 
stated, although they none of them tally with each other. 
From the mouth of the Ganges to the Promontory of the 
Calingi and the town of Dandaguda,''^ is six hundred and 
twenty-five miles ; from thence to Tropina twelve hundred and 
twenty-five ; from thence to the promontory of Perimula, 
where is held the most celebrated mart in all India, seven 
hundred and fifty, and from thence to the city of Patala, in the 
island just mentioned, six hundred and twenty miles. 
The mountain races between the Indus and the Jomanes are 
the Cesi,''^ the Cetriboni, who dwell in the woods, and after them 
the Megallse, whose king possesses five hundred elephants, and 
an army of horse and foot, the numbers of which are unknown ; 
then the Chrysei, the Parasangse, and the Asmagi,-^^ whose terri- 
tory is infested by wild tigers ; these people keep in arms thirty 
^ The modern Jhelum. 
Some writers suppose that this must be the same as the Hydraotes, 
or modern Eavi, because the latter is not otherwise found mentioned in the 
list given by Pliny. The name, however, leaves but little doubt that Pliny 
had heard of the Acesines under its Indian name of Chandahragha, and 
out of it has made another river. 
70 The modern Sutlej. 
''^ Probably in the vicinity of the modern Calingapatam ; none of the 
other places seem to be identified. 
^"2 Ansart suggests that the Cesi may be the same race as the modern 
Sikhs. 
73 Perhaps the people of modern Ajmere. 
