...xmlns:ptext="ptext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> The Ister, since it flows through inhabited country, is known from many reports; but no one can speak of the source of the Nile; for Libya , though which it runs, is uninhabited and desert. Regarding its course, I have related everything that I could learn by inquiry; and it issues into Egypt. Now Egypt lies about opposite to the mountai...