LAKE NEMI’S SECRET
All the world is watching at a distance the falling waters of Lake Nemi in Italy. It was said that the stern of an old Roman galley was seen the other day, and that the hope of finding the lost galley of Caesar was gi'eatly heightened by this glimpse. Lake Nemi’s waters, now being steadily pumped away by four gigantic pumps, have held for 19 centuries the secrets of the magnificent imperial barges which lor a whim the Emperor Caligula sank there. By the side of the lake were his palaces, and from time to time statues and. other works of art which adorned them have been salved. But if the traditions of the centuries prove true the great barges held greater treasure than all the rest. Now, at the command of a later Dictator, Lake Nemi is being drained to discover them. In three months the lake’s waters have sunk nine feeL Any day the treasure may reappear. - Peruvian legend the golden deity (El Dorado) plunged beneath the waters. To-day at Lake Nemi hundreds of tourists await the reappearance of an El Dorado of another kind.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 6
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190LAKE NEMI’S SECRET Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 6
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