Capitolo 8
straining through the sands along the valley, gives few the fertility to
assistants, long and it tightens, what, from the contrast with which they forms the
surrounding devastation, seems to the traveller to possess the vegetable and
the beauty of Heaven. There is a line of these oases that you/they extend long this
depression of west, and some of them are of considerable extension. The
oasis of Siweh on that it was standing the far-famous temple of Ammon of Jupiter,
it was many miles in extension, and it was said to have contained in venerable old man
times a population of eight thousand souls. This way, while the more anymore
oriental of the three valleys that we have called you/he/she was sunk so low as to
admits the ocean to freely flow in him, the more than west it was this way
slightly depressed that it only earned an it circumscribed and it limited
the fertility through the springs that, in the portions lowest of him,
filtered by the earth. The third valley--the central one--now he/she remains to
is described.
The reader will observe, once more reporting himself/herself/itself to the map, that south
of the great region of rainless of which we am speaking, there lies groups
and series of mountains in Abyssinia, called the Mountains of the Moon.
These mountains are near the equator and the relationship that them
sustains to the surrounding seas, and to current of wind that the hit in
that quarter of the world, is so, that they brings down from the
atmosphere, especially in the certain seasons of the enormous year and
pluvius continuous streams. The water that so it falls pluvius roars the
mountain the valleys it sides and you pour. There is a great portion of him
what you/he/she cannot flow to the toward south or toward east toward the sea as the
whole country consists, in those directions, of continuous lines of
elevated earth. The rush of water turns so the toward north, and,
pressing on through the desert through the great central valley that us
you/he/she has assigned to on, it finds a result, finally in the
Mediterranean, to a point two thousand miles far from the place