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It is the sun also, in my opinion, which, by heating the space
through which it passes, makes the air in Egypt so dry. There is
thus perpetual summer in the upper parts of Libya. Were the position
of the heavenly regions reversed, so that the place where now the north
wind and the winter have their dwelling became the station of the south
wind and of the noon-day, while, on the other hand, the station of
the south wind became that of the north, the consequence would be that
the sun, driven from the mid-heaven by the winter and the northern
gales, would betake himself to the upper parts of Europe, as he now
does to those of Libya, and then I believe his passage across Europe
would affect the Ister exactly as the Nile is affected at the present day.
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