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 131 The races which we may enumerate without being tedious, from the chain of Emodus, of which 167i miles. Others gire 265 miles." But M. de St.-Martm prefers to think that the D has, by some mangling of the text, been detached from the beginning of the second number, with which it formed the number DLXV., and been appended to the first, being led to this conclusion on finding that the number 565 sums up almost to a nicety the distance from the Hesidrus to Kalinipaxa, as thus : — From the Hesidrus to the Jomanes 168 miles. From the Jomanes to the Ganges 112 „ Prom the Ganges to Bhodopha 119 „ From Rhodopha to Kalinipaxa 167 „ Total.,. 566 miles. Pliny's carelessness in confounding total with partial dis- tances has created the next difficulty, which lies in his stat- ing that the distance from Kalinipaxa to the confluence of the Jomanes and the Ganges is 625 miles, while in reality it is only about 227. The figures may be corrupt, but it is much more probable that they represent the distance of some stage on the route remoter from the confluence of the rivers than Kalinipaxa. This must have been the passage of the Jomanes, for the distance — From the Jomanes to the Ganges is ... 112 miles. Thence to fihodopha 119 „ Thence to Kalinipaxa 167 „ Thence to the confluence of the rivers. 227 „ Total... 625 miles. This is exactly equal to 5000 stadia, the length of the Indian Mesopotamia or DoAb, the PanchSla of Sanskrit geography, and the AntarvSda of lexicographers. The foregoing conclusions M. de St. -Martin has summed up in the table annexed:— Roman miles. Stadia. From the Hesidrus to the Jomanes. 168 1344 From the Jomanes to the Ganges... 112 896 Thence to Rhodopha 119 952 From the Hesidrus to Rhodopha by a more direct route 325 2600 From Rhodopha to Kalinipaxa 167 ^ 1336 Total distonce from the Hesidrus to Kalinipaxa 565 4520 From Kalinipaxa to the confluence of the Jomanes and Ganges (227) (1816) Total distance from the passage of the Jomanes to its confluence with the Ganges 625 6000