[334] The voyage from the Ganges to Ceylon, in the time of Eratosthenes, occupied seven days, whence he concluded that Ceylon was seven days’ sail from the continent.
[335] Groskurd reads 5000 stadia. B. ii. c. i. § [14].
[336] εἰδοποιήσουσι. Coraÿ.
[337] The text is, as Coraÿ observes, obscure, if not corrupt. The proposed emendations of Coraÿ and Kramer are followed.
[338] Herod. ii. 5.
[339] At the beginning of autumn.
[340] At the beginning of winter.
[341] Taxila seems to have been situated at some distance to the east of Attock.
[342] At the delta formed by the Indus.
[343] Towards the end of summer.