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096.
Very many times the Nile and other very large rivers have poured out
their whole element of water and restored it to the sea.
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097.
Why does the inundation of the Nile occur in the summer, coming from
torrid countries?
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098.
It is not denied that the Nile is constantly muddy in entering the
Egyptian sea and that its turbidity is caused by soil that this
river is continually bringing from the places it passes; which soil
never returns in the sea which receives it, unless it throws it on
its shores. You see the sandy desert beyond Mount Atlas where
formerly it was covered with salt water.
Customs of Asiatic Nations (1099. 1100).
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099.
The Assyrians and the people of Euboea accustom their horses to
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