The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean

At the head of the gulph and in the disposition of the channels of the Euphrates Tigris and Euleus Mr. [...] The use of them is to connect the motions of the army with those of the fleet and to explain the geography of Arrian ; but the A few names occur in de Banos Rmusio's Collection tom. [...] I. H E voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates is the first event of general importance to mankind in the history of navigation ; and if we discover the comprehensive genius of Alexander in the conception of the design the abilities of Nearchus in the execution of it are equally conspicuous. [...] It has been the peculiar felicity of Arrian to rise in estimation in proportion to the degree of attention paid to the transactions he records As our knowledge of India has increased the acuracy of his historical researches has been established ; and as the limits of geography have been extended the exactness of his information has become daily more conspicuous and the purity of the sources [...] After the defeat of Darius at Arbea the flight of that unfortunate monarch and the pursuit of the usurper Bessus led Alexander to Sogdiâna Bactria and the northern provinces of the empire.