Note 787 — Chapter VII · THE ATMOSPHERE
Reading edition
Historia, XIX, 16 (in medieval French transl., edited by Paulin Paris, vol. ii, 1880, p. 275; see also Dreesbach, Der Orient, 1901, p. 29). Walter of Châtillon describes vividly the drought, whirlwinds, and sand storms of the Libyan desert (Alexandreis, III, 374). See Ganzenmüller, Naturgefühl, 1914, p. 201.