Editing Subterranean river (section)

==Mythology and literature==
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[[File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon).jpg|thumb|upright|right|In [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', [[Charon (mythology)|Charon]] ferries souls across the subterranean river [[Acheron]].]] 
Greek mythology included the [[Styx]], [[Phlegethon]], [[Acheron]], [[Cocytus]], and [[Lethe]] as rivers within the [[Greek underworld|Underworld]]. [[Dante Alighieri]], in his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', included the [[Acheron]], [[Phlegethon]], and [[Styx]] as rivers within his subterranean [[Hell]]. Similar references were made in [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. The river Alph, running "Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea" is central to the poem [[Kubla Khan]], by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]].

The characters in [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'' encounter a subterranean river:

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"Hans was not mistaken," he said. "What you hear is the rushing of a torrent."

"A torrent?" I exclaimed.

"There can be no doubt; a subterranean river is flowing around us."<ref>[[Jules Verne]], ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'', translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, 1877, [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3748 at Project Gutenberg].</ref>
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Several other novels also feature subterranean rivers.<ref name="heggen"/> The [[subterranean rivers of London]] feature in the novel ''Drowning Man'' by [[Michael Robotham]] as well as in the novel ''[[Thrones, Dominations]]'' by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] and [[Jill Paton Walsh]] in which a character remarks:

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"You can bury them deep under, sir; you can bind them in tunnels, but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be."<ref>[[Dorothy L. Sayers]] and [[Jill Paton Walsh]], ''[[Thrones, Dominations]]'', Hodder and Stoughton, 1998, p. 313.</ref>
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