The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian, and illustrated by authorities ancient and modern ... / By William Vincent, D.D. To which are added three dissertations: two, on the acronychal rising of the Pleiades, by Dr. Samuel Horsley and by Mr. William Wales and one by Mr. de la Rochette, on the first meridian of Ptolemy.

  • Vincent, William, 1739-1815.
Date:
1797
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Credit: The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian, and illustrated by authorities ancient and modern ... / By William Vincent, D.D. To which are added three dissertations: two, on the acronychal rising of the Pleiades, by Dr. Samuel Horsley and by Mr. William Wales and one by Mr. de la Rochette, on the first meridian of Ptolemy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    well as the Interior of his empire, and a reafohable hope of uniting the whole by mutual communication and reciprocal interefls. By tracing the correfpondent parts of this fyftem, we ihall be able to evince Its reality ; for though the opening of the world to the knowledge of mankind, as Curtlus expreffes it, proved in the event a concern of far greater magnitude ; the furvey of the empire was of more immediate importance to the conqueror. The line of conqueft from the Hellefpont to the Indus was complete, but the Iiir termediate country was by no means fufficiently explored. The route of the army, after the death of Darius, had been moftiy to the North of the Paropamifus, or that range of mountains, by what- foever name diftinguilhed, which in Oriental geography feparates Iran from Touran. India had been entered on its northern bound- ary ; and v^hen Alexander had completed his campaign at the foiirces of the Indus, his march and voyage down the courfe of that river defined the eaftern limit of the empire : commencing again from this limit, he refolved to explore the fouthern provinces, which though they had fubmitted to the reputation of his arms, were in a political fenfe ftill unknown. To obtain the information neceffary for the objedls he had In view, he ordered Craterus, with the elephants and heavy baggage, to penetrate through the centre of the empire, while he perfonally undertook the more arduous talk of paffing the deferts of Gadrofia, and providing for the prefervation of the fleet. A glance over the map wnll fhew, that the route of the army eaftward, and the double route by which it returned, interfeft the whole empire by three lines almoft from the Tigris to the Indus. Craterus joined the Notwithaanding particular expeditioas to Propthaiia, Aracholia, Sec. divifion