Second Ottoman period · Water and mills · Travellers
Barbié du Bocage notes six mills
1810 Probable
In 1810 the French geographer Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage recorded six mills at Lerna. It is the same number that Benjamin Brue had seen turning on six channels in 1715.
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- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- R. Koch Piettre, «Invoking the water of Lerna», Les Études classiques 87 (2019), p. 301, citing Barbié du Bocage (1810)
- B. Brue, Journal de la campagne que le grand vesir Ali Pacha a faite en 1715 pour la conquête de la Morée, ed. A. Dumont, Paris 1870, p. 33 Open (opens in a new tab)
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