32O MEMOIRS O? 



Lolls his red tongue, and from the reedy fide 

 Of flow Euphrates laps the muddy tide. 



That harmonioufly-named river of the 

 Eaft, has too long rolled through our ima- 

 gination in beautiful and lucid currents, 

 for us to like this reverfe picture of it's 

 ftreams. One of our poets, probably Mil- 

 ton, has fomewhere faid, 



. and by the verdant fide 



Of palmy Euphrates. 



At laft, fince the {Ituation of Babylon 

 was certainly flat and marfhy, Dr. Darwin 

 is probably corre<fl in this inftance, how- 

 ever obftinately our /enfations may refufe 

 to grant that one of the rivers which en- 

 circled Paradife can deferve to be fo de- 

 fcribed; but there, as it was nearer it's 

 fource in the mountain Niphates, it would 

 certainly be more pure ; befides, that it 

 may be fuppofed to have become polluted 



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