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Athanasius Kircher
4. Peter Pais on meandering
P. Peter Pais claimed he had discovered the source (fontium) of the Nile,
and he made a map-"A true and genuine topography of the fountains of the
Nile: made by P. Peter Pais on the 21st of April, in the year 1618 in the
presence of the Emperor."
His map shows two fountains on a craggy hill, with
a prim circle of incense bearing trees, perhaps, where the Nile, meandering
with a conspicuously mazy motion, forms the boundary of the a kingdom called Amara. Amara (or Amhara in Latin) may have suggested Abora,
and the map may well have echoed the other writers who described the
meandering Nile, when Coleridge came to write Kubla Khan. --Kircher, I, 52-53. |
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