Water is properly that which is dedicated as the vital humour of this arid earth; and the cause that moves it through its ramifying veins, against the natural course of heavy things, is the very same that moves the humours in all the species of animate bodies. And it is that which, to the great wonder of those who contemplate it, rises from the lowest depth of the sea to the highest summits of the mountains, and, pouring through the broken veins, returns to the low sea, and again with swiftness mounts up and returns to the aforesaid descent; thus turning from the inner parts to the outer, thus from the lowest to the highest, now rising with accidental motion, now falling with its natural course; thus joined together in continual revolution, it goes circling through the terrestrial channels.

The water that is dedicated as the vital humour of this arid earth ...

That cause which moves the humours in all the species of animate bodies ...

And as from the lower part of the vine the water mounts to the cut branches, and falls back upon its roots, and, penetrating them, rises again to the break and once more falls, so does the water.

Thus from the lowest depth of the sea the water rises and mounts to the summits of the mountains; and as the water pours through the cut branches of the vine, and falls back upon its roots, penetrating them, so does the water that ...

And as the low blood rises upward and pours through the broken veins of the forehead, and as from the lower part of the vine the water mounts to its cut branches, so from the lowest depth of the sea the water raises itself to the summits of the mountains.