GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



If e'er our long loft liberty return. 



That carcafs is referv'd for public fcorn. 



Now it remains, a monument confeft 



How one proud man could lord it o'er the reft. 



To Macedon, a corner of the earth. 



The vaft ambitious fpoiler ow'd his birth. 



There foon he fcorn'd his father's humbler reign. 



And view'd his vanquifh'd Athens with difdain ; 



Driven headlong on, by Fate's refiftlefs force. 



Thro' AJids realms he took his dreadful courfc : 



His ruthlefs fword lay'd human nature wafte. 



And defolation follow'd where he pafs'd. 



Red Ganges blufli'd, and fam'd Euphrates flood. 



With Perfian this, and that with Indian blood. 



Such is the bolt, which angry 'Jove employs. 



When undiftinguifhing his wrath deftroys. 



Such to mankind portentous meteors rife. 



Troubling the gazing earth, and blaft the fkies. 



The antients inform us, that the Ganges had feven mouths; Its seven- 

 Mouths. 

 at prefent we can trace only two with any certainty. The 



Hoogly river, and that which is by pre-eminence called the 



Ganges.^ not much lefs than two hundred miles diftant from 



each other. Ptolemy enumerates five of the mouths by name; 



the Oj Cambufium-, which I fliould rather give to Hoogly river, 



than as d^Anville does to the Bramnec, or what he calls the 



Kenka ; but he gives the name of Magnum OJlium to the Hoogly 



river, becaufe it is at prefent the moll frequented ; but that 



mouth 



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