Note (return) — Chapter I · (continued 3)

The description now given is from the rivers of this country, where it is not unfrequent to see relicts of three or four different haughs which had occupied the same spot of ground upon different levels, consequently which had been formed and destroyed at different periods of time. But the same operation is transacted every where; it is seen upon the plains of Indostan, as in the haughs of Scotland; the Ganges operates upon its banks, and is employed in changing its bed continually as well as the Tweed10. The great city of Babylon was built upon the haugh of a river. What is become of that city? nothing remains,—even the place, on which it stood, is not known.