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Offspring or
the Macedo-
nians.

Taxila.

WESTERN HINDOOSTAN.

by an unexpected panic of the garrifon. M. D'Anville fup-
pofes it to have been the modern Renas, fituated in about
Lat. 380 North. Our countryman, the gallant Captain John
Jones, in 1773, mattered by open ftorm Dellamcotia, a fort
equally ftrong, and feated in a manner equally lingular amidfc.
the Boutan mountains.

Amidst the favage mountains of Sewad and Bijore, inhabits
a tribe who afTerr, that they are defcended from fome of the fol-
lowers of Alexander the Great, who were left behind when he
paffed through the country : poffibly the garrifon of Alexandria,
and of the other garrifons he left behind, might alfo contribute
to this mixt fpecies of population. The tribe of Sultani af-
fumes the honor of being the defcendants of a daughter of that
conqueror, who came from Cabul, and poflefTed this country;
and to this day carry with them their pedigree*. They call
their great anceftor Sultan Secunder Zulkerman, which Mr.
Rennel, p. 163, obferves, mould be printed Zul Kernine, or the
two-horned. This is certainly a moft remarkable allulion to the
prophecy of Ifaiah viii. 8, in which Alexander the Great is fore-
told under the defcription of the Goat, with this difference only,
that they double the number of the horn, with which he had
deftroyed the power of the Perjians and the Medesi.

'Taxila flood on, or near the fpot, where the city Attock now
ftands. Here Alexander croffed the Indus on a bridge of boats,
which his favorite Hepbejiion had fome time before been fent
to prepare. In 1398 the famous Timur Beg, or Tamerlane,
paffed this river on one of the fame kind. In our days Kouli

* Abul Fazul, it, 194.

+ See Rollin's Antient Hift. vi. 211.

Khan