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| | Montesquieu, Complete Works, vol. 2 The Spirit of Laws ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The land army of Alexander had been on the east only as far as the Hypanis, which is the last of those rivers that fall into the Indus: thus the first trade which the Greeks carried on to the Indies was confined to a very small part of the country. |
 | | Afterwards the fleet of Alexander,† descending the Indus, arrived at Susa in ten months, having sailed three months on the Indus, and seven on the Indian sea; at last, the passage from the coast of Malabar to the Red sea was made in forty days. |
 | | Strabo,§ who accounts for their ignorance of the countries between the Hypanis and the Ganges, says, there were very few of those who sailed from Egypt to the Indies, that ever proceeded so far as the Ganges. |
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