Is cum in eum influit, tunc tanta magnitudine fluminis facit amaram, ideo quod per id genus terrae et venas, unde sandaracam fodiunt, ea aqua manando perficitur amara.
On flowing into the river it makes the broad stream bitter; and this is because the water is made bitter by flowing through the kind of soil and the veins of earth from which they mine red lead.
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