The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian, and illustrated by authorities ancient and modern ... / By William Vincent, D.D. To which are added three dissertations: two, on the acronychal rising of the Pleiades, by Dr. Samuel Horsley and by Mr. William Wales and one by Mr. de la Rochette, on the first meridian of Ptolemy.

  • William Vincent
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1797
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Credit: The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian, and illustrated by authorities ancient and modern ... / By William Vincent, D.D. To which are added three dissertations: two, on the acronychal rising of the Pleiades, by Dr. Samuel Horsley and by Mr. William Wales and one by Mr. de la Rochette, on the first meridian of Ptolemy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 529 ] % ADDITIONAL NOTES. Page X53. Note 239. AS Bundar-Lari on the eaftern branch of the Indus, and Lari-bundar on the weftern, appear to form, a diftindlon in Euro- pean accounts only, may it not be conjedlured that both have«a re- ference to Lari, or Loheri, a town belonging to the Doo-ab of Behker? and that Bandar, expreffing a port^ may be common to Toth branches, one forming the eajlern po7^t of Loheri and tiie other the Loheri is either the fame as Tekier, or elfe a place fomewhat lower than Tekier, at the bottom of the Doo-ab of Behker, as Sekier, written Sucker, Sungar, and Senguere, is at the top. This likewife affords ground for conjecture, that the Nulla Simkra, or Senguere, the eaftern channel, may affume its name from conducting the navigation to Sunkra, Suckor, or Sekier, Page 276. Note 270. In the Hiftory of the Difcovery of India, by Manuel de Faria y Soufa (Englilh edition 1694, voL i. p. 27,), it appears, that pre- vious to Gama’s expedition, Peter de Covillam and Alfonfo de Payva had been fent to Alexandria ; and that Covillam had paffed by the Red Sea to the coaft of Malabar, who, though he never re- turned hiinfelf (being detained In Abylfinia), yet fent an account of his difcoverles by Lamego, a Jew, to the Court of Lifbon. This is worthy of remark, as it proves that the Portuguefe purfued the dif- covery of India by the route firft defigned by Alexander, accom- 3 Y pliflied