Footnotes
[34]
Herodotus, "Melpomene," iv. 44.
[37]
Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 33, Strabo, lib. xv.
[38]
They sailed not upon the rivers, lest they should defile the
elements — Hyde, "Religion of the Persians." Even to this day they have
no maritime commerce. Those who take to the sea are treated by them as
Atheists.
[40]
Herodotus, "Melpomene," lib. iv, cap. 44, says that Darius conquered the
Indies; this must be understood only to mean Ariana; and even this was
only an ideal conquest.
[42]
This cannot be understood of all the Ichthyophagi, who inhabited
a coast of ten thousand furlongs in extent. How was it possible for
Alexander to have maintained them? How could he command their
submission? This can be only understood of some particular tribes.
Nearchus, in his book Rerum Indicarum, says that at the extremity of
this coast, on the side of Persia, he had found some people who were
less Ichthyophagi than the others. I should think that Alexander's
prohibition related to these people, or to some other tribe still more
bordering on Persia.
[43]
Alexandria was founded on a flat shore, called Rhacotis, where,
in ancient times, the kings had kept a garrison to prevent all
strangers, and more particularly the Greeks, from entering the country.
-- Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 10; Strabo, lib. xviii.
[44]
Arrian, "De Expedit. Alex." lib. vii.
[46]
Strabo, lib. vi, towards the end.
[47]
Seeing Babylon overflowed, he looked upon the neighbouring
country of Arabia as an island. — Aristobulus, in Strabo, lib. xvi.
