Capitolo 10
the whole valley and forms for once an immense lake, extending in
length through the whole width of the desert. This lake is, clearly,
from five to ten miles wide, and thousand miles along. The water in him
depth is little and turbid, and it has a kind tide toward the north. The
rains, for a long time in a great cessation of measure; but it asks for the months
for the water to escape and to leave the valley they dry. Hardly it is
gone, it jumps above there from the whole surface of the earth that has
submerged state so a more line and luxuriant vegetation.
This vegetation, regulated now completely and checked by the hand of man,
it is due to be, in his/her original and primordial state, of a very particular
character. It is due to only consist of such plants as you/he/she could exist
under the condition to have the ground in Which they was staid for a,
quarter of the year, completely under water. This circumstance, probably,
prevented the valley of the Nile to have been as other fertile,
lines of earth, encumbered, in its native state, with forests. For the
same reason, wild beasts would not have been able him to ever frequent. There were anybody
forests to protect them and any shelter or it withdraws him for them but the dry lands
and sterile desert, during the period of the annual floods. This
the most greater part in extraordinary valley seems so to have been formed and it preserved
from Nature her for the special possession of man. You she seems
the kept possession in reserve for him from the a lot of morning of the creation,
admission that refuses in him to every plant and every animal that were able
prevents or you disturb his/her occupation and control. And if him pits to abandon
it now for thousand years, and then once more he/she returns to him, he is able
find him/it in the moment in which he left him/it, ready for his/her immediate possession. There
it would not be any wild beasts that him first it has to expel, and no entangled forests
you/he/she would have jumped, on that its first ax owes to remove. Nature is the
agriculturist that holds this garden of the world in order and the means