NATURE’S OWN BOILER.
One of the world’s wonders of which few people have ever heard is at Argostoli, in the Island of Cephalonia, the largest of the seven lonian Islands. The power that works the corn mills at Argostoli is derived from the sea, which rushes downwards into the land. Many millions of gallons of salt water have run down in > the interior of the earth in this rummer. Experts believe that the water finds its way down through the soil and rocks to heated areas far beneath the surface, where It becomes steam. But where are the necessary outlets for such vast clouds of steam? The opinion is held by some that the answer to this mystery is to be found in the frequent activity of the nearest volcano. It is supposed that the active volcanoes of Italy are the safety-valves of the enormous subterranean boiler which is turning this inflowing water into the steam and gases which escape from these volcanoes. Some scientists declare that if the inflow of the sea was stopped earthquakes would be less frequent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18163, 27 April 1921, Page 8
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180NATURE’S OWN BOILER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18163, 27 April 1921, Page 8
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