Histories

For of the rivers that brought down the stuff to make these lands, there is none worthy to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, and the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile has five mouths.

There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Akarnania (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeAcarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland.