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IN your notice of Morelet's “Central America” (NATURE, December 28, 1871) you speak of the water of the lake of Peten as fresh, though without an outlet. This is uncommon, but not unexampled. The lake of Araqua in Venezuela, described by Humboldt, is of this kind, and so are the lakes near Damascus, into which the Abana and Pharpha respectively discharge. The best account of these latter is, I believe, in Mr. Macgregor's work, “The Rob Roy on the Jordan.”
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MURPHY, J. Freshwater Lakes without Outlet. Nature 5, 203 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005203d0
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