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American sailors find 'a little collection of huts'
30 May 1831 Proven
Officers of the American frigate USS Constellation visited Lerna. Enoch Wines wrote that the water from the spring was led away in a canal and turned a few mills, which gave the name Mylos to a little group of huts built of mud and thatched with reeds from Lerna. The miller told them the lake had no bottom.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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Sources
- E. C. Wines, Two Years and a Half in the American Navy, 1833, vol. II, pp. c. 205–206 Open (opens in a new tab)
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