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LIBER II · CAPUT 86

THE MODE IN WHICH ISLANDS RISE UP

THE MODE IN WHICH ISLANDS RISE UP. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE MODE IN WHICH ISLANDS RISE UP · EDITORIAL PLATE II.86 · modern editorial plate
THE MODE IN WHICH ISLANDS RISE UP. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Nascuntur et alio modo terrae ac repente in aliquo mari emergunt, velut paria secum faciente natura quaeque hauserit hiatus alio loco reddente.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Land is sometimes formed in a different manner, rising suddenly out of the sea, as if nature was compensating the earth for its losses, restoring in one place what she had swallowed up in another.