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Excerpt from A History of Greece, Vol. 7 of 8 After the conquest of the Bactrian satrapy, there remained only one province of the Persian empire into' which Alexander had not yet carried his arms: it was that which tempted his curiosity, as well as his ambiw tion, perhaps more than any other. Already, indeed, before he crossed the Paropamisus, he had made himself master of a great part of the country which the Per s1ans called India, and perhaps had very nearly reached the utmost limits within which the authority of the Great King was acknowledged in the latter years of the monarchy. But the power of the first Darius had cer tainly been extended much further eastward. It seems probable that a part of his Indian tribute was collected in the Pendj ab, and there is some reason to believe that it was on the Hydaspes Scylax began his voyage of discovery.1 After the death of Darius, the attention of the Persian kings was so much turned toward the west, or distracted by wars with their revolted subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.