3. _Subsolanus_ has on its right _Vulturnus_, on its left _Eurus_; _Auster_ has on its right _Euroauster_, on its left _Austroafricus_; _Favonius_ on its right _Africus_, on its left _Corus_. Further, _Septentrio_ has on its right _Circius_, on its left _Aquilo_. These twelve winds surround the globe of the universe with their blasts. 20. ... In the spring and autumn the greatest possible storms appear when it is neither full summer nor full winter, whence, as [the time] is an intervening one, bordering on both seasons, storms are caused from the conjunction of contrary airs. Chapter 12. On the waters. 2. The two most powerful elements of human life are fire and water, whence they who are forbidden fire and water are seriously punished. 3. The element of water is master of all the rest. For the waters temper the heavens, fertilize the earth, incorporate air in their exhalations, climb aloft and claim the heavens; for what is more marvelous than the waters keeping their place in the heavens! 4. It is too small a thing to come to such a height; they carry with them thither swarms of fishes; pouring forth, they are the cause of all growth on the earth. They produce fruits, they make fruit trees and herbs grow, they scour away filth, wash away sin, and give drink to all living things. Chapter 13. On the different qualities of waters. 5. Linus, a fountain of Arcadia, does not allow miscarriages to take place. In Sicily are two springs, of which one makes the sterile woman fertile, the other makes the fertile, sterile. In Thessaly are two rivers; they say that sheep drinking from one become black; from the other, white; from both, parti-colored. 10. Hot springs in Sardinia cure the eyes; they betray thieves, for their guilt is revealed by blindness. They say there is a spring in Epirus in which lighted torches are extinguished, and torches that are extinguished are lighted. Among the Garamantes they say there is a spring so cold in the daytime that it cannot be drunk, so hot at night that it cannot be touched. Chapter 14. On the sea. 2. ... The depth of the sea varies; still the level of its surface is invariable. 3. Moreover that the sea does not increase, though it receives all streams and all springs, is accounted for in this way; partly that its very greatness does not feel the waters flowing in; secondly, because the bitter water consumes the fresh that is added, or that the clouds draw up much water to themselves, or that the winds carry it off, and the sun partly dries it up; lastly, because the water leaks through certain secret holes in the earth, and turns and runs back to the sources of rivers and to the springs. Chapter 15. On the ocean.