The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c14.44

c14.44

When the Macedonian army of about 11,000 men, after surmounting all the difficulties of the passage, ultimately found itself on the mainland, it entered a considerable plain of firm soil known as ‘Karrī’, girdled by low hills on the north and east. This plain at its widest part is about 5 miles broad, and afforded a sufficient, though not excessive, space for the battle. The river at the crossing-place runs over quartz boulders, and a still existing island, ‘larger than the rest’, corresponds closely with that described by the Greek historians as the place on which Alexander first landed, and may or may not have continued in existence since his time.