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The Indus Delta Country. A Memoir Chiefly on its Ancient Geography and History

1894

the east by the sandhills of the desert by the farthest eastern channel of the Indus known as the Puran which has long ceased to carry water except in times of unusually high floods and by the Kori Mouth or Creek which separates the Delta from Kachchha ; on the west by the outer border of the plains formed of hill debris sloping eastward and southward from the Kohistan or mountainous region [...] The question of the particular channel by which the fleet reached the sea being tuN disposed of the point next to be determined is the position of Krokala as we have a measurement from the mouth of the river to that island which will help us to fix the line of the Delta coast at the time referred to. [...] Situated at the extremity of a great natural route of traffic leading from the site of the modern Attock at the main entrance from Central Asia to the plains of India it was also tne nearest point in the peninsula to the countries on the great Mesopotamian rivers and to those on the shores of the Mediterranean where the commercial spirit was trom the earliest ages in high activity and maritime [...] In the infancy of nautical adventure when the sailor still kept within sight of land and dared not steer boldly into the open ocean the natural course of navigation both from the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea would lead the trader seeking India directly to the mouths of the ' But the date of the complete overthrow of the Bactrian Monarchy by the Scythians of whom the Yuiichi were the principal [...] The success of an experiment which effected an immense reduction in the period occupied by voyages between the West and India at once brought about a revolution in the navigation of the Indian Ocean ; and before the close of the century the example of the intrepid 40 See the abstracts of the lost work of Agatharchides as made by Photius and Diodorus (that of the latter especially) in Muller's "G
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Pages
165
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147131
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-4 M. R. Haig view
Preface
5-i M. R. H. view
I. Sketch of the Geography and Hydrography of the Delta Country
1-8 M. R. Haig view
II. The Delta at the Time of Alexander’s. Expedition (325-326 B.C.)
8-23 M. R. Haig view
III. The Delta According to Later Greek Accounts
23-34 M. R. Haig view
IV. The Delta According to the Accounts of Early Eastern Writers
34-65 M. R. Haig view
V. Eastern Geographers on Central and Lower Sindh
65-71 M. R. Haig view
VI. The Delta Country after the Second Muhammedan Invasion of India
72-97 M. R. Haig view
VII. The Portuguese in the Delta
97-102 M. R. Haig view
VIII. The Campaign of the Imperial Forces in Lower Sindh in 1591-92
102-110 M. R. Haig view
IX. Lower Sindh in the Modern Period
110-123 Vincent Smith view
Appendices
124-148 M. R. Haig view

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