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Samuel Ibn Tibbon: Otot ha-Shamayim, (1210)
(Hebrew version of Aristotle's Meteorology)
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Taken from: Otot Ha-Shamayim: Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew Version of Aristotle's ...
By ( Aristóteles, Aristote, Resianne Fontaine, Shmuel Ibn Tibbon

As for the Nile, it springs from a mountain called Gores and similarly three rivers flow from a mountain called so-and-so.

This zone lies 16 degrees beyond the equator. Towards the south there is little habitation. But from the latitude of 16 degrees until the south pole there is no habitation, ploughing or sowing because of the large amount of extreme burning heat, which has scorched the earth there and as a result the earth has become dry and black. This is visible in the increase of the water of the Nile that springs from there, for when it flows out it brings black water owing to the burnt material in that place.