They ran through groves of cedars and large groups of forest trees not unlike to enormous oaks and pines, and yet not the same.
"One river, that to the right if I looked towards the lake, was very broad, so broad that after it reached the plain and flowed slowly, great ships could have sailed upon it.

The other, that to the left, was smaller and more rapid, but it also wandered away across the plain till my sight could follow it no farther.

I observed that the broad, right-hand river evidently inundated its banks in seasons of flood, much as the Nile does, and that all along those banks were fields filled with rich crops, of what sort I do not know.

The plain itself, which I take it was a kind of delta, the gift of the great river, was limitless.

It stretched on and on, broken only by forests, along the edges of which moved many animals.
"When first I saw this landscape it was suffused with a sweet and pearly light, that came not from sun or moon or stars, but from a luminous body in shape like a folded fan, of which the handle rested on the earth.