Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — A Remarkable River. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable River.

The remarkable river Reka rises in the Austrian province of Carniola and disappears in the Karst caves. There are reasons for believing that it runs ’forji a long distance underground, emerging twenty miles away as the Timavo, a stream which, mysteriously pours out of a hillside. Members of the Austrian Alpine Club have lately attempted an exploration of this subterranean course of the Reka, and have succeeded in following it about one-eighth of a mile, i passing six waterfalls and reaching the I seventh, which proved impassible without special apparatus. One of ? the caverns encountered is reported to be large enough to contain St Peter’s Cathedra! at Rome, 1