Note 182 — Chapter XVIII · —Alexander orders wells to be dug in the district round Patala, and sails down the western arm of the Indus

In the 41st chapter of the Periplûs of the Erythraian Sea it is said that in the regions adjoining the Indus mouths “there are preserved even to this very day memorials of the expedition of Alexander, old temples, foundations of camps, and large wells.”