Unde cognito per porrectam planitiem ad usque lapidem septuagensimum, in regionibus aridis nec aquam inveniri posse praeter salsam et faetidam, nec ad victum aliquid nisi abrotonum et absinthium et dracontium, aliaque herbarum genera ut tristissima.
Here we learned that on a plain extending for seventy miles through dry regions only water that was salt and ill-smelling could be found, and nothing to eat except southernwood, wormwood, dragonwort and other plants of the most wretched sort.
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