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the iV//<?," he is supposed to rave in good earnest; cHAr. 
and " to have reference to worse documents ' 
than modern maps;" because the Indus of 
j^schylus is immediately confounded with the 
Indian river of that name, to which it was impos- 
sible he could refer. India was unknown to 
the Greel's until the age of Alexander ; and the 
inhabitants of Ethiopia were considered as 
Indians by the Romans, so late as the time of 
Augustus, Straho expressly tells us, that 
Homer was ignorant of India ^ j^scliylus, who 
died a full century before Alexander was born, 
had no means of being better informed respect- 
ing that country ; but there existed other rivers 
with the same appellation. Pliny mentions an 
Indus, nearly opposite to the Nile, in Asia 
Minor\ Experience may at last teach us to 
ascertain, at least, the geography of Homer and 
of jEschylus, before we venture to dispute their 
accuracy. 
In the evenmo' of our arrival at Si^eum, we had ^lomu 
~ ° Athos, 
proof of the possible extent of vision in the 
(3) Thy fj^iv oZ-/'lvlix.ya oIk oToiv''Oi/.r,c^i;. Strab. Geog. lib. i. p. 56. Ed. 
Oxon. 
(4) " Aranis Indus in Cybirataruin jugis ortus, recipit lx pereunes 
fluvios, torrentes veto amplius centum." Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. v. c. 28, 
L. Bat. 1635. There is, however, a diflferent reading noticed in this edi- 
tion ; Ninus being substituted for Indus in some copies : " Alii Ninus 
€x Alexand. et Hermol." Vid. Var. Lectiones, p.GM. Not, IT. 
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