rich, as I believe, in metals. For I cannot readily believe, what is asserted by some writers, that their soil is impregnated with gold and silver. At a distance of twenty miles from these lies Crocala,[1] from which, at a distance of twelve miles, is Bibaga, which abounds with oysters and other shell-fish.[2] Next comes Toralliba,[3] nine miles distant from the last-named island, beside many others unworthy of note.
Fragm. LVI. B.
Solin. 52. 6-17.
Catalogue of Indian Races.
The greatest rivers of India are the Ganges and Indus, and of these some assert that the Ganges rises from uncertain sources and inundates the country in the manner of the Nile, while others incline to think that it rises in the Scythian mountains. [The Hypanis is also there, a very noble river, which formed the limit of Alexander's march, as the altars erected on its banks prove.[4]]
- ↑ In the bay of Karâchi, identical with the Kolaka of Ptolemy. The district in which Karachi is situated is called Karkalla to this day.
- ↑ This is called Bibakta by Arrian, Indika, cap. xxi.
- ↑ v.l. Coralliba.
- ↑ See Arrian's Anab. V. 29, where we read that Alexander having arranged his troops in separate divisions ordered them to build on the banks of the Hyphasis twelve altars to be of equal height with the loftiest towers, while exceeding them in breadth. From Curtius we learn that they were formed of square blocks of stone. There has been much controversy regarding their site, but it must have been near the capital of Sopithês, whose name Lassen has identified with the Sanskṛit Aśvapati, 'lord of
