And as the heavens are intersected on the right by two broad zones, by two that cut the left, and by a fifth consumed with ardent heat, with such a number did the careful God mark off the compassed weight, and thus the earth received as many climes. At His command the boundless plains extend, the valleys are depressed, the woods are clothed in green, the stony mountains rise. Thus received amid the wide expanse of uncontrolled waves, they beat the shores instead of crooked banks.
he also added fountains, pools and lakes, and bound with shelving banks the slanting streams, which partly are absorbed and partly join the boundless ocean. Then poured He forth the deeps and gave command that they should billow in the rapid winds, that they should compass every shore of earth.
§ 1.32 And when this God - which one is yet unknown - had carved asunder that discordant mass, had thus reduced it to its elements, that every part should equally combine, when time began He rounded out the earth and moulded it to form a mighty globe.
