THE RIVER DUDEN. 



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below. The water in the duct was running in 

 the direction of Lagon ; and, by following the 

 road southward, doubtless something would 

 have turned up, but I had not time to do 

 everything, and I proceeded. My Greeks pre- 

 tended that it only continued about an hour 

 or two southward, but Lagon must have been 

 five or six. I soon found that it must have 

 come from one of the great sources which 

 supply the Dud en. A long narrow bridge, 

 almost formed into a solid rock by the nature 

 of the water, crossed a marshy pool, in the 

 middle of which was a current passing through 

 the arches, and immediately forming a river, 

 running off, as the Greeks assured me, to the 

 Duden. Just beyond the bridge they took me 

 to a source in the mountain on the left, where 

 the whole water issues at once, and gently, from 

 the solid rock. After a mile or two I came 

 to another source, which gushes with much more 

 force and a slight fall, shortly after leaving the 

 rock. It then almost immediately becomes a 

 river, and runs as if to join the other ; from 

 which, I forgot to say, issues my straight cut 

 duct. I should tell you, that I was positively 

 informed at Gule-Look by my muleteers, that 



