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[65] Through this land, consisting of a plain of wide extent, 1 surrounded on all sides by precipitous cliffs, two rivers of famous name, the Oechartis and the Bautis, 2 flow in a somewhat slow course. The nature of the various tracts is unlike, being now open and flat and now descending in gentle slopes; and therefore the land overflows in grain, flocks, and orchards.

1 For situ, “structure,” “form,” cf. Horace, Odes, iii. 30, 2, regalique situ pyramidum altius. As this meaning seems not to occur elsewhere, this may be a reminiscence; cf. bene numrnatum, xiv. 6, 12, note.

2 The Selenga and the Hoang Ho.

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