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CALLIRRHOE

Volume 6 · 68 words · 1860 Edition

in Ancient Geography (surnamed Enneaerousos from its nine springs or channels), a fountain near Athens, greatly admired by Peisistratus. There were several other wells in the vicinity, but this was the only running spring. This name was also applied to a considerable stream of hot water, which rises from several springs on the eastern side of the Jordan, and falls, after a short course, into the Dead Sea.