The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c14.45

c14.45

The channel marked ‘Alexander’s channel’, now considerably silted up, seems to be similar to that which the Macedonian army forded, and if not precisely identical, is certainly very close to the position of the channel crossed by Alexander. General Abbott is quite justified by his map in saying that ‘the river is at this moment [1848] so exactly as described by Alexander’s historians that the map might seem to be an ancient rather than a modern production’. General Abbott’s ‘elaborate disquisition’ is based on a careful survey effected by two days’ hard work from sunrise to evening each day, and his observations have never been contradicted or impugned. Cunningham simply took no notice of them.