"There is a sense of emptiness that comes over us at evening, with the odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood ashes growing cold in the braziers, a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble on the fallow curves of the planispheres where they are portrayed..."I assume that the they denotes "rivers and mountains". Am I correct? Thanks in advance!
The sentence is quoted from
http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/CalvinoInvisibleCities.htm