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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxxiii. E The eye of Iacob shalbe vpon y^e londe where corne and wine is, heauen also shal droppe with dewe.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxcviii. 1233/1 The Hebrewes call Fountaines Eyes, because the springes of the water (if yee marke them) haue the shape of the eye in a mans body.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxxiii. 28 The eie of Jacob in the land of corne and wine.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. v. i. 894 Some Eyes of water haue beene seene that vnder ground goe into the Sea.

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile i. vii. 16/1 But 'tis impossible to paint all the Variety of Objects produced by these several Motions and Compositions of Streams and Fountains: I cannot leave them without mentioning one called the Eyes of Water.

1799 W. Somerville Narr. E. Cape Frontier (1979) 43 In the Eye of the fountain a substance of metallic appearance is found resembling the ore of Lead.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 290/2 The place where the river re-appears is called Los Ojos de Guadiana (the eyes of the Guadiana).

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vi. 111 A hollow, which anciently must have been the eye of a fountain.

1883 J. Mackenzie Day-dawn in Dark Places 70 There are three separate wells or ‘eyes’ to this fountain.

1933 W. Macdonald Romance of Golden Rand 124 The few isolated habitations of the..Voortrekkers, each situated at the fountainheads, or ‘eyes’, of the numerous sparkling streams which flowed north and south from the Rand.

1985 J. Mitchell Church Ablaze 135 Sheets of iron covered this fountain eye to prevent the cattle trampling the mud and closing the eye.

2003 National Geographic Oct. 92/1 At high tide the off-shore caves expel fresh water, which bubbles at the surface. Local residents call these fountains ojos de agua, eyes of water.