wherever
they
can
find
a
passage,
having
neither
regular
beds
nor
an
orderly
course.
They
sometimes
become
muddy
by
passing
through
ground
which
is
not
firm,
and
which
they
bear
away
with
them
by
their
rapidity.
Sometimes
they
appear
to
be
irre-coverably
lost,
then
they
reappear
for
a
time,
but
it
is
only
to
precipitate
themselves
in
another
abyss,
still
deeper
than
the
former
one.
It
is
the
sport
of
these
torrents
to
show
themselves,
to
lose
themselves,
and
to
break
themselves
upon
the
rocks.
Their
course
is
so
rapid
as
to
be
undiscemible
;
but
finally,
after
many
precipices
and
abysses,
after
having
been
dashed
against
rocks,
and
many
times
lost
and
found
again,
they
reach
the
sea,
where
they
are
lost
to
be
found
no
more.
And
there,
however
poor,
mean,
useless,
destitute
of
merchandise
the
poor
torrent
may
have
been,
it
is
wonderfully
enriched,
for
it
is
not
rich
with
its
own
riches,
like
other
rivers,
which
only
bear
a
certain
amount
of
merchandise
or
certain
rarities,
but
it
is
rich
with
the
riches
of
the
sea
itself.
It
bears
on
its
bosom
the
largest
vessels;
it
is
the
sea
which
bears
them,
and
yet
it
is
the
river,
because
the
river,
being
lost
in
the
sea,
has
become
one
with
it.
