The Ten Books on Architecture, 8.2.7

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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7That the source of the Nile is in Mauretania is known principally from the fact that there are other springs on the other side of the Atlas range flowing into the ocean to the west, and that ichneumons, crocodiles, and other animals and fishes of like nature are found there, although there are no hippopotamuses.

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