17 OCTOBER 1874, Page 16

Tfll FOUNTAIN OF ARECHLTSA.

(To THE EDITOR OF THB "SPECTATOR"]

have waited in vain for anything in answer to your correspondent "A.," in your issue of the 4th July, on the subject of the fresh-water spring in the sea near the fountain of Arethusa at Syracuse. Your correspondent says this spring must be a myth. It may be ; I know not. But that such a spring is possible, I do know, for I myself last June drank fresh, sweet water out of one which is covered by the sea every high-tide. It is on the coast, about thirteen miles south from Gogo, Kathiawar, Bombay, close to a village called from it Mithiviri (" Sweet