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Let this be, then, as it is and as it was in the beginning. But as to the sources of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know them, except the recorder of the sacred treasures of Athena in the Egyptian city of Saïs.
Let this be, then, as it is and as it was in the beginning. But as to the sources of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa Nile , no one that conversed with me, Egyptian, Libyan, or Greek, professed to know them, except the recorder of the sacred treasures of Athena in the Egyptian city of Saïs.
[2] I thought he was joking when he said that he had exact knowledge, but this was his story. Between the city of
Aswan [32.933,24.83] (inhabited place), Aswan, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Syene
in the
Thebaid (region (general)), Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
Thebaid
and
Elephantine, there are two hills with sharp peaks, one called
Crophi and the other
Mophi.
[4] He said that
Psammetichus king of
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
had put to the test whether the springs are bottomless: for he had a rope of many thousand fathoms' length woven and let down into the spring, but he could not reach to the bottom.
[5] This recorder, then, if he spoke the truth, showed, I think, that there are strong eddies and an upward flow of water, such that with the stream rushing against the hills the sounding-line when let down cannot reach bottom.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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