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OCR: chestnut leaves in large quantity. Since chestnut trees do not grow in Sicily, this spring must issue from some lake in Italy and then pass beneath the sea and afterward find outlet in Sicily." A He continues to reject two traditional theories accounting for the flow of water from mountain- tops: one, that the seas are higher than the mountains; and the other, that the water found high on mountains originates as snow. In the last paragraph, Leonardo describes rocks he saw on a visit to Elba in July 1503 (recorded