The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Ganges

  • river

The great sacred river of northern India, flowing from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. In Gibbon it marks the eastern horizon of classical geographic knowledge.

Type
river
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 175
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The great sacred river of northern India, flowing from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. In Gibbon it marks the eastern horizon of classical geographic knowledge.

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