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one cannot found upon them with much security. Ac-cording to it, Palibothra is situated four hundred andtvventy-five miles below the confluence of the Jumna andGanges. The actual distance , however, between Allahabadand Patna, is not more than two hundred British miles.A disagreement so considerable cannot be accounted for,without supposing some extraordinary error in. the Itinerary,or that the point of conflux of the Jumna with the Gangeshas undergone a change. For the former of these supposi-tions there is no authority (as far as I know) from anymanuscript, or for the latter from any tradition. MajorRennell has produced the reasons which led him to sup-pose the site of Palibothra to be the same with that of Patna;Memoirs, p. 49—94. Some of the objections which mightbe made to this supposition he has foreseen, and endeavouredto obviate, and after all that I have added to them, 1 shallnot be surprised , if, in a geographical discussion , myreaders are disposed to prefer his decision to mine.

NOTE XIV. Sect. I. p.

I do not mention a short inroad into India by Antiochusthe Great, about one hundred and ninety-seven years posteriorto the invasion of his- ancestor Seleucus. We know nothingmore of this transaction, than that the Syrian monarch , afterfinishing the war he carried on against the two revolted pro-vinces of Parthia and Bactria , entered India , and conclu-ding a peace with Sophagafenus, a king of the country, receiv-ed from him a number of elephants, and a sura of money ;Polyb. lib. x. p. <97, &c lib. xi. p. 6<:. edit. Casaub.Justin, lib. xv. c. 4. Bayer’s Hist. Regn. Grtecor. Bactr.p. 69, &c.

NOTE XV. Sect. I. p. 57.

A fact cursorily related by Strabo, and which has escapedthe inquisitive industry of M. de. Guignes , coincides