[125] Arrianus de Exped. Alexandri, lib. vi.
[126] Another reason why I think this journey of the centurions is fictitious is, that they say the distance between Syene and Meroë is 660 miles. Plin. lib. 6. cap. 29.
[127] Pliny, Nat. Hist. lib. v. cap. 9.
[128] In Œdipo Syntagma, I. cap. vii. p. 57.
[129] I never heard that Cyrus had attempted this discovery.
[130] Called, in the Ethiopic annals Hendaqué; wrote originally, I suppose, with an X or Ch.
[131] Lib. v. cap. 9. Nat. Hist.
[132] Diod. Sicul. Bibliothec. lib. i. p. 20.
[133] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. v. cap. 9.
[134] From a nation of Shangalla of that name, through which it runs, after having passed its source, and taken its course into Nubia.