Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: seen where the rivers empty themselves into the sea." B Citing two examples-the rivers of the Apennines, which empty into the Adriatic, and the Arno tumbling from the rock of Gonfolina-he concludes that the shells in the mix of fresh and salt water came down the rivers from the mountains: "The waters which came from the earth to the sea, although they drew the sea toward the earth, were those which smote its base, because water which comes from the earth has a stronger current than the sea, and as a consequence is more powerful and enters beneath the other water