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1 2|         thousand miles distant, rivers two or three days (journey)
2 2|       are not always bridges at rivers, nor ships ready: so that
3 4|         are girded on a side by rivers or swamps, so that you cannot
4 5|       roads, the mountains, the rivers, the marshes, and all their
5 5|       crossed it easily. If the rivers are rapid, (and) desiring
6 5|       be overcome by the river. Rivers that are not forded, are
7 6|   grottoes (caves), or banks of rivers, or a multitude of trees,
8 7|         which are surrounded by rivers or marshes, as is Mantua
9 7| polluted the water and diverted rivers to take a town, even though