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³ The place of the confluence in 326 b.c. has not been ascertained; see Vincent Smith, pp. 92, 93. It would seem that so far geographical researches such as those of Major G. H. Raverty (*J.A.S.B.* for 1892, pt. 1) have a mainly negative value in showing the rashness of the older identifications rather than a positive value in establishing new ones. If either the statements in our texts had been less vague or the river beds less changeable the case would not have been so hopeless.