Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 28 -- Et In Arcadia Ego
Basa, and Beni-Amer, with a Particular Glance at the Races of Bellad Sudan (1852) by Ferdinand
Werne,
In the country of the Haddenda is one spring, which supplies nearly the half of it; there one can
plainly observe how the water runs strongly below the surface, and the land of Taka is also full
of such underground watercourses.
Another Taka with its own underground rivers! As we note with some regularity, such waterways
seem to be everywhere.
Conclusion
There is no physical underground channel from the Peloponnese Peninsula to Sicily, but our story
is less about a water pipe than it is about a conduit of culture.
An idealized Arcadia was to fuel -- and to be fueled by -- the renaissance of Western culture and
we thus recall land's underground rivers.
We'll depart Peloponnese not by a submarine
River Alpheus, but via the subterranean
Arcadian stream in Robert Hubert's 1808 "Le
Grotte" with its trio of women illuminated by
the water's mysterious light.
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