Note 11 — Section 114. THE SOURCES[1] OF WATER.
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[1] Here Urquellen.
[2] The water has many sources.
[3] great = chief; form a comp. n.
[4] To render ‘from the’ use the Gen. of the def. art.
[5] none of us = nobody.
[6] bears down upon = shines.
[7] erwärmend.
[8] penetrating = penetrate, durchdrin´gen, insep. comp. str. v.
[9] as it were, gleichsam.
[10] and draw it upward.
[11] wie.
[12] das verdunstete Wasser.
[13] carries it.
[14] nach den nördlichen und südlichen Polargegenden.
[15] and distributes it north and southward. Comp. S. 71, N. 2, the principle stated there applying likewise to other compound expressions besides nouns.
[16] the = on (an) the.
[17] to enter again the ocean, dem Ozean wieder zuströmen.
[18] in the form of = as, which place after the rel. pron.
[19] auf´fangen, sep. c. str. v.
[20] to draw water, Wasser schöpfen.
[21] aus.
[22] down = deep.
[23] sammeln.
[24] ‘to pass along’, here dahin´fließen.
[25] Auf diese Weise.