The quantity of water underground • beneath'the crust of the earth’s Surface is nearly "bn-e-third of the total volume of •the oceanic waters, says a scientist who has just concluded investigations; of buried : rivers and 'caves. The earth’s -ground ■ water has been accumulating for,.countless,, ages, and extends to great depths, per--haps six miles, and percolates slowlythrough the porous and jointed rockas tp. form a great system of underground drain-' age. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 19
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