Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

From the Princess' private papers,
Chapter 23 -- Girls, Too!
I entered a broad river, whose current was from the sea, and let myself drift along its banks in
bewildered delight.
While the Mizoran river has little literary uniqueness, its utilization by electrolysis is novel.
They separated water into its two gases, and then, with their ingenious chemical skill, converted
it into an economical fuel.
There were several processes for decomposing the water explained to me, but the one
preferred, and almost universally used by the people of Mizora, was electricity. The gases
formed at the opposite poles of the electrical current, were received in large glass reservoirs,
especially constructed for them.
I must not forget to give some notice to their water supply in large cities. Owing to their cleanly
advantages, the filtering and storing of rain-water in glass-lined cisterns supplied many family
uses. But drinking water was brought to their large cities in a form that did not greatly differ
from those I was already familiar with, excepting in cleanliness. Their reservoirs were dug in
the ground and lined with glass, and a perfectly fitting cover placed on the top. They were
constructed so that the water that passed through the glass feed pipes to the city should have a
uniform temperature, that of ordinary spring water. The water in the covered reservoirs was
always filtered and tested before passing into the distributing pipes.
It's a high-tech waterworks, to be sure, given that the manuscript's more than a century old.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert
(1921) by Jessie Graham Flower followed the Boys Club story
line, even down to the hats. (See The Border Boys Across the
Frontier illustration in Chapter 20.)
In selecting mounts for their desert journey, Grace Harlowe selects
an "outlaw" pony. "Don't reckon you'll be able to stick on him,"
warns Hi Lang, the guide. Grace flings herself into the saddle and
off they go!
Early in the afternoon the guide began looking for water, now
and then dismounting to search about for a tank, breaking in
crusts of alkali, putting an ear to the ground to listen for the
murmur of an underground stream, or feeling with his hands over
several yards of hot sand in search of a cool spot that might
indicate water.
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