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Excerpt from Revue de Philologie, de Litt�rature Et d'Histoire Anciennes, 1900, Vol. 24
Examinons a pr�sent notre figure. Elle se compose de quatre cercles concentriques. Le plus petit repr�sente la terre et l'eau; celle - ci, nous venons de le voir, ne peut �tre con�ue comme �tant s�par�e de la terre. (le cercle est d�sign� par les mots �yxo� m ��aro�; (l'expression 6 fig �'yxoc, la masse de la terre, se trouve d�]a et circonf�rence cercle qui repr�sente la terre, sont repr�sent�es, appos�es deux � deux par la base, quatre montagnes; la forme de ces montagnes est a noter nous la trouverons tout a fait semblable dans la seconde de nos planches.
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