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452 ALEXANDER AT CAUCASUM.tions to defend its defiles. By <strong>the</strong> most difficult one he couldscarcely travel at this early winter season, certainly not takehis horses with him. He was forced to wait.During this interval <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> founded a new city — Alex<strong>and</strong>riaad Caucasum — near modern Beghram, some twentyfivemiles northwest <strong>of</strong> Cabul. He chose <strong>the</strong> site with his,>.M">"''«UI".Routes over Caucasus.usual discretion, at <strong>the</strong> point «vhere <strong>the</strong> three roads branch<strong>of</strong>f to <strong>the</strong> different passes to Bactriana. The city was built tokeep his troops busy till <strong>the</strong> winter season had so far passedthat he might cross, <strong>and</strong> to enable him to hold <strong>the</strong> pass he proposedto use. For <strong>the</strong> inimical tribes he was about to encountermight as easily cut <strong>of</strong>f his retreat in case <strong>of</strong> disaster as nowimpede his advance. <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> recognized, also, that beyondthis range he was going into a real terra incognita, wherevaried <strong>and</strong> great <strong>and</strong> unknown perils certainly awaited him,<strong>and</strong> he took his measures accordingly. Here in his new post

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