FRESH WATER SPRINGS IN THE ATLANTIC.
One of tlie most remarkable displays of nature may be seen on the Atlantic coast, eighteen miles south of St. Augustine. Off Matanzas Inlet, and three miles from shore, a mammoth fresh-water spring gurgles up from the depth of the ocean with such force and volume as to attract the attention of all who come in its immediate vicinity. This fountain is Urge. bold and turbulent. It is notice able to fishermen and others passing in small boats along near the shore. For many years this wonderful and mysterious freak of nature has been known to the people of St Augustine, and those living along near the shore, and some of the superstitious ones have been taught to regard it with a kind of reverential awe, or holy horror, as the abode of supernatural influences. When the waters of the ocean in its vicinity are otherwise calm and' tranquil, the upheaving and troubh ; appearance of the water shows unmistakable evidence of internal commotions. An area of about half-an-acre shows this troubled appearance—something similar to the boiling of a washer ■woman’s kettle. Six or eight years ago Commodore Hitchcock, of the United* States Coast Survey was passing .this place, and his attention was directed to the upheaving of the water, which threw his ship from her course us she entered the spring. His curiosity becoming excite 1 by this circumstance, he set to work lib examine the surroundings,, and found Mix iathoms of: water everywhere in the vicinity, while the spring itself was almost fathomless. —Savannah News.
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Temuka Leader, 12 November 1881, Page 3
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262FRESH WATER SPRINGS IN THE ATLANTIC. Temuka Leader, 12 November 1881, Page 3
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