See Nilus on Wiktionary
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"text": "As looks the ſun through Nilus flowing ſtream,\nOr when the morning holds him in her armes.\nSo lookes my Lordly loue, faire Tamburlaine: […]",
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"text": "But afterwards, for that the boates and veſſels uſed upon this ſea in the paſſage thither, were made and wound of papyr reeds like thoſe of the river Nilus, […]",
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"english": "The source of the River Nile is near the edge of the Red Sea, though some people say that its source is in the western end of Africa near the Atlas Mountains, and that it immediately flows east of the sands, and then sinks back down into the sand, and near there it flows up again from the sand, and there forms a great sea.",
"text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans\nNilus sēo ēa hire ǣwielme is nēh þǣm clife þǣre Rēadan Sǣs; þēah sume men seċġen þæt hire ǣwielme sīe on westende Affrica nēh þām beorge Athlans, ⁊ þonne fol raðe þǣs sīe ēast irnende on þæt sond, ⁊ þonne besince eft on þæt sand, ⁊ þǣr nēh sīe eft flōwende up of þǣm sande, ⁊ þǣr wyrcð miċelne sǣ.",
"translation": "The source of the River Nile is near the edge of the Red Sea, though some people say that its source is in the western end of Africa near the Atlas Mountains, and that it immediately flows east of the sands, and then sinks back down into the sand, and near there it flows up again from the sand, and there forms a great sea.",
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