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[11] Rising, then, in the quarter which has been mentioned, it passes from the marshes 1 as far as the cataracts and forms many islands, some of which (it is said) extend over such wide-spread spaces that the stream hardly leaves each of them behind on the third day.

1 Ammianus seems to accept King Juba's opinion; cf. section 8, above.

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