The young kingdom · Travellers · Water and mills
A Danish professor sees the spring by the chapel of Saint John
1 April 1882 Proven
Travelling by carriage, Johan Louis Ussing wrote that the largest spring came out 'through seven openings by a small chapel of Saint John'. He also noted that at Myli the new carriage road turned west towards the mountains.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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- J. L. Ussing, Fra Hellas og Lilleasien i Foraaret 1882, Copenhagen 1883, pp. 58–60 Open (opens in a new tab)
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