Postremo quoniam raro cum corpore tellus est, et coniunctast, oras maris undique cingens, debet, ut in mare de terris venit umor aquai, in terras itidem manare ex aequore salso; percolatur enim virus retroque remanat materies umoris et ad caput amnibus omnis confluit, inde super terras redit agmine dulci qua via secta semel liquido pede detulit undas.
Lastly, since the earth has a porous body, and it is joined together with the sea, girdling its shores all around, it is necessary that, as the flow of water comes from the land into the sea, so also it should ooze into the land from the salt sea; for the pungency is strained off, and the substance of the water oozes back, and all meets at the sources of each river, whence it returns over the earth in a moving mass of sweet water along the path which has once been cut for it in its liquid course.
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