Ex Mauretania autem caput Nili profluere ex eo maxime cognoscitur, quod ex altera parte montis Atlantis alia capita item profluentia ad occidentem Oceanum, ibique nascuntur ichneumones, crocodili, aliae similes bestiarum pisciumque naturae praeter hippopotamos.
What shows more than anything else that the source of the Nile rises in Mauretania, is, that on the other side of Mount Atlas there are other springs flowing to the Western Ocean, and in them are found the ichneumon, the crocodile and other animals and fishes of a like nature, but not the hippopotamus.
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