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As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations inhabiting the sandy
ridge are known to me; but beyond them my knowledge fails. The ridge
itself extends as far as the Pillars of Hercules, and even further
than these; and throughout the whole distance, at the end of every ten
days' there is a salt-mine, with people dwelling round it who all of
them build their houses with blocks of the salt. No rain falls in
these parts of Libya; if it were otherwise, the walls of these houses
could not stand. The salt quarried is of two colours, white and
purple. Beyond the ridge, southwards, in the direction of the
interior, the country is a desert, with no springs, no beasts, no
rain, no wood, and altogether destitute of moisture.
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