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² Dr Vincent Smith in an appendix (p. 78) defends the Jhelum site against the Jalālpur site, preferred by Cunningham. A point in favour of Jhelum is that it is higher up and Alexander seems to have kept close to the hills. One does not see however that it can ever be possible to decide the question with our defective documents. Most of the argument on the subject takes it for granted that the place where Alexander crossed was *above* the camp of Porus. But our sources do not tell us whether it was above or below. Graf Yorck von Wartenburg and Delbrück prefer the hypothesis that it was below. With this point uncertain, as it must remain, it seems idle to try to be precise.