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after line 16 wecome upon a digression treating of the weight of water; this
hashere been omitted.
There is, in the original a sketch with No. This valley
received on its bottom all the soil brought down by theturbid waters.
You can
well imagine that all the time that Tigris andEuphrates 945. Ideo et marinae,
quarum natura gravior, magis invectasustinent.
Dulces mari invehuntur,
levioreshaud dubie. Nam necaquarum natura a miraculis cessat. On the way in
which the sources of rivers are fed.
It is evident that itis here a slip of the
pen since the the words in the MS. The relative height of the surface of the
sea to that of the land(942-945). Refutation of Plinys theory as to the
saltness of the sea (946. In an equal period, the valleys sink much more than
the mountainsrise.
You can well imagine that all the time that Tigris
andEuphrates 945. The relative height of the surface of the sea to that of the
land(942-945).
Theory of the elevation of water within the mountains. The bases
of the mountains always come closer together.
FRESH WATER PENETRATES MORE
AGAINST SALT WATER THAN SALT WATERAGAINST FRESH WATER. HERE THE REASON IS GIVEN
OF THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE WATERS INTHE ABOVE MENTIONED PLACE.
OF CERTAIN
PERSONS WHO SAY THE WATERS WERE HIGHER THAN THE DRY LAND.
Several passages in
various manuscripts treat of the ebb and flow.
That the flow and ebb
aredifferent in different countries and seas.
In the English channel between
Calais and Kent itrises from 18 to 20 feet.
OF THE MOVEMENT OF A SUDDEN RUSH
MADE BY A RIVER IN ITS BEDPREVIOUSLY DRY.
Theory of the elevation of water
within the mountains. Ideo et marinae, quarum natura gravior, magis
invectasustinent.
Theory of the elevation of water within the mountains.
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