I read this article again and was surprised to see something I missed before;

“Furthermore, the egyptians
said this lake drains underground into theLibyan Syrtis, and extends under the mountains above Memphis, having
an inland country on its west”

I guess I missed it because I didn't understand the end of the sentence and have a strong tendency to dismiss entire sentences that I can't parse.

Whatever it means though it might explain how a river can form with no outlet; Like Short River in Florida it simply goes underground. This allows flow and flow defines a river.


“The water of the lake [Moeris] is not natural (for the country here isexceedingly arid) but brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it
flows into the lake, and six back into the river.”

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.