Capitolo 9
where the immense condenser deduced him/it from the skies. The river this way
servant is the Nile. It is formed, in a word, from the waters surplus of a
district flooded with rains, in their progress through a rainless
abandonments, while looking for the sea.
If water's excess on the Abyssinian mountains had been continuous
and it conforms, the brook, in his/her passage through the desert it would have
the very small fertility and communicated to the sterile sands that it
crossed. The immediate banks of the river are able, you/he/she has perhaps been,
fringed with vegetable, but the influence of the irrigation would have
wide anybody more distant than the same water you/he/she would be been able to arrive, from
filtering through the sand. But the flow of the water is not this way
uniforms and you consolidate. In a certain season of the year the rains are
incessant, and they comes down as almost with such abundance and profusion
to flood the districts where they falls. Immense brook of streams down
the mountain sides; the valleys are flooded; plans turn into marshes,
and marshes in lakes. In a word, the country becomes submerged mean,
and the mass accumulated of waters would dress again wicker with the great strength and
the violence down the central valley of the desert that forms their only
result, if the passage were narrow, and if it did some considerable
come down in his/her progress to the sea. However it is not, and the
descent is very small. The depression in the surface of the desert,
through that water flows, it is from five to ten miles wide, and,
although it is almost two thousand miles from the rainy district through
the desert to the sea, almost the country for the whole distance is
level. You/he/she is come down only enough there, especially for the last one
thousand miles, to determine a very kind tide to the toward north in
the waters of the brook.
Under these circumstances, the immense quantity of water in which it falls
the rainy district in these that it floods tropical showers, expands on