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WITH reference to the inquiry of your correspondent, Surgeon Lloyd Thomas, in your issue of the 10th instant (p. 129), there is a short paper on this subject by Capt. H. P. Shilston, entitled βOn Curious Natural Phenomena in Cephalonia,β to be found in the Transactions of the Liverpool Geological Association, vol i. (Liverpool: Henry Young, 1881). The writer describes the inflow of water to the land through crevices in the limestone, as observed by him, and gives an explanation by Prof. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., who considers that the phenomenon arises from the large amount of evaporation, within range of the district, by which the level of the subterranean stores of water is kept constantly below the level of the sea, notwithstanding the joint supply of rain- and sea-water.
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J., O. The Sea-Mills at Argostoli. Nature 33, 154 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033154b0
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