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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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The consequent difficulty of maintaining communication along this portion
of the river bank deserves to be specially noted; for it precludes the idea that
demonstrations by large numbers of troops, such as Arrian and Curtius relate to
have been repeatedly made from Alexander's camp, could have taken place here.
Yet Cunningham's location of this camp at Jalālpur would presume this. For
the same reason it would have been impossible to find room here for the force
under Meleager, which we are told was posted by Alexander half-way between
his camp and his selected crossing-place, if these had really been Jalālpur and
Dilāwar, respectively, as Cunningham assumed.
At Jalālpur, on the other hand, all physical features are in the closest agree-
ment with the facts recorded about Alexander's crossing-place.⁹ There is the
headland overlooking the river at a distinct bend; there is the ravine of the
Kandar Kas between Jalālpur town and the point where the spur turns off sharply
from the river; there are still plenty of such trees and bushes as the arid climatic
conditions of the present day permit of, growing on the slopes east of Jalālpur
and to the south of the town towards the river bank; and, what deserves to be
specially noted, there is a large island stretching down from opposite Jalālpur
between the Halkiwānī and the present main bed farther south.
Where the winding bed of the Kandar Kas debouches to the north-east of
Jalālpur it is overlooked on either side by bold hillocks rising to 300 feet (Fig. 4,
Skeleton Map 1). At its nearest bends there adjoin stretches of fairly level
ground now under cultivation. Thus the bed here corresponds exactly to the
praealta fossa, or deep ravine, which Curtius mentions as lying not far from the
river bank and 'capable of hiding not only foot-soldiers but also men with horses'.
There are large groves of trees and bushes growing on the ground which sepa-
rates the town from the river bed. This wooded ground would thus admirably
serve to screen preparations for an intended crossing, a point referred to in
Arrian's description.¹⁰
The Halkiwānī bed, where we rode across it on November 26th, close to the
wide sandy mouth of the Kandar Kas was partially dry, and about 55 yards wide.
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