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SICILY AND MALTA. 303
At a little distance from the fountain of
Arethusa, there is a very large spring of
fresh water, that boils up in the sea. It is
called Occhi di Zilica, and by some Al-
pheus, who is supposed by the poets to
have pursued Arethusa below the sea all the
way to Sicily.
As this spring is not taken notice of by
any of the great number of the ancients
that speak of Arethusa, it is most probable
that it did not then exist; and is a part of
that fountain that has since burst out be-
fore its arrival at the issand of Ortigia.
Had it been visible in the time of the
Greeks, there is no doubt that they would
have made use of this, as a strong argu-
ment to prove the submarine journey of
Arethusa ; as it in fact rises at some distance
in the sea, and pretty much in the same di-
rection that Greece lies from Ortigia. It
sometimes boils up so strongly, that after
piercing
At a little distance from the fountain of
Arethusa, there is a very large spring of
fresh water, that boils up in the sea. It is
called Occhi di Zilica, and by some Al-
pheus, who is supposed by the poets to
have pursued Arethusa below the sea all the
way to Sicily.
As this spring is not taken notice of by
any of the great number of the ancients
that speak of Arethusa, it is most probable
that it did not then exist; and is a part of
that fountain that has since burst out be-
fore its arrival at the issand of Ortigia.
Had it been visible in the time of the
Greeks, there is no doubt that they would
have made use of this, as a strong argu-
ment to prove the submarine journey of
Arethusa ; as it in fact rises at some distance
in the sea, and pretty much in the same di-
rection that Greece lies from Ortigia. It
sometimes boils up so strongly, that after
piercing