The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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these floods take place at the time when the sun melts the snows on  
the high mountains of Ethiopia that rise up into the cold regions of  
the air; and in the same way the approach of the sun acts on the  
mountains of Sarmatia in Asia and on those in Europe; so that the  
gathering together of these three things are, and always have been,  
the cause of tremendous floods: that is, the return flow of the sea  
with the West wind and the melting of the snows. So every river will  
overflow in Syria, in Samaria, in Judea between Sinai and the  
Lebanon, and in the rest of Syria between the Lebanon and the Taurus  
mountains, and in Cilicia, in the Armenian mountains, and in  
Pamphilia and in Lycia within the hills, and in Egypt as far as the  
Atlas mountains. The gulf of Persia which was formerly a vast lake  
of the Tigris and discharged into the Indian Sea, has now worn away  
the mountains which formed its banks and laid them even with the  
level of the Indian ocean. And if the Mediterranean had continued  
its flow through the gulf of Arabia, it would have done the same,  
that is to say, would have reduced the level of the Mediterranean to  
that of the Indian Sea.  
The Red Sea. (1091. 1092).  
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091.  
For a long time the water of the Mediterranean flowed out through  
the Red Sea, which is 100 miles wide and 1500 long, and full of  
reefs; and it has worn away the sides of Mount Sinai, a fact which  
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