Manner of
conveying
troops to
Haïder-âbâd.
the capital (Lahore): troops, also, are constantly conveyed
by steamers to reinforce or relieve our stations near Haider-
abad. This is sometimes effected by crossing the bar with
one of the river steamers to meet the larger one outside, but
more generally by marching from Karachee to the lower part
of the Bagar, there to embark. But this difficulty, and also
the passage of the bars, might be avoided, by cutting a canal
from Karachee to some part of the trunk of the Indus: this
would require but a moderate amount of labour, and would
greatly facilitate our growing commerce on the river.
Adverting to what has been said on page 252, a careful
computation of the routes of the army has given the following
approximative tables of the
M a r c h e s o f A l e x a n d e r t h e G r e a t .
European Routes.
Pella to Widdin, below Lom, on the Danube
Back again to Pella .
From Pella to Thebes
From Thebes to Dia .
From Dia to the Hellespont
Total
Routes in Lesser Asia.
From the Hellespont to the Granicus
The Granicus to Ilium . . . .
Ilium to S a r d i s ..................................
Sardis to Ephesus ...........................
Ephesus to Halicarnassus . . . .
Halicarnassus to Alindee and Makri .
Makri to Xanthus and Telmissus
Telmissus to Mount Climax .
Mount Climax to Salagassus
Salagassus to C e lsen e ............................
Celsene to Yerma, probably Gordium
Gordium to A n c y r a ............................
Ancyra (high route) to the Camp of Cyr
The Camp of Cyrus to Tarsus
Tarsus into Bugged Cilicia and back
Tarsus to Myriandros and back to the Issus
Total .
Carried forward
Brought forward . . .
Routes in Syria.
From the Issus by Aradus to Tyre .
Tyre to J a f f a .............................................................
Jaffa to Jerusalem
Jerusalem to Gaza ............................
Gaza to Pelusium.......................................................
Total . . . .
Routes in Africa.
Pelusium to Memphis................................................
Memphis to the S e a ................................................
The Sea to P a r s e to n iu s .........................................
Paraetonius to the Temple of Ammon
Ammon to Memphis . . . . . . . .
Total . . . .
Routes through Syria and Mesopotamia.
Memphis to Pelusium and G a z a ...........................
Gaza to T y r e ..............................................................
Tyre to Aradus . . . . . . . . .
Aradus to A n t i o c h ......................................... .....
Antioch to T h a p s a c u s .........................................
Thapsacus to Häran, Mardin, and Eskl Mdsul .
Eski Mdsul to Arbela. . . . . . . .
Arbela to the Tigris, at the Great Zab .
The Great Zdb to O p i s .........................................
Opis to B a b y lo n .......................................................
Babylon to Susa . . . . . . . . .
Total . . . .
Persian Routes.
Susa to the Pasitigris . . . . . •.
The Pasitigris, north-eastward to Mai-Amir
The Uxian city to Kal’eh Sefid . . . .
Kal’eh Sefid to Persepolis . . . . -.
Persepolis to Ecbatana (Hamadan) .
; Hamadan, by Rhagae, to the Caspian Gates .
The Caspian Gates to Hecatompylos. .
Hecatompylos to Zadracarta . . . . . '
During the campaign of the Mardi and Beten
Thence to Zadracarta ............................
Zadracarta to Susia in Aria . . . .
Susia in Aria to H e r a t ..................................
Herat to Propluhasia (now Peshawarun)
Peshawarun to U’lan Robat, Or Shahri-Zohak
U ’lftn Robat to K d b u l ..................................
Kabul to B e g h r a m .........................................
Total .
Carried forward
Miles. Miles. .
2 ,8 8 2
273
86
32
53
136
580 ;
125
146
145
172
334
922
261
134
122
120
140
280
85
52
130
88
230
1,642
45
87 '
188
84
480
286
215
115
375
115
550
130
192
460
198
35
3,555
. . . ' 9,581