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The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades

Note 260 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.

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“Abyssus profunditas aquarum, impenetrabilis, sive speluncae aquarum latentium, e quibus fontes et flumina procedunt; vel quae occulte subtereunt, unde et Abyssus dictus. Nam omnes aquae, sive torrentes per occultas venas ad matricem abyssum revertuntur” (Etym., XIII, 20). In the text is given the translation of Brehaut, Isidore, 1912, p. 241.

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