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Dry Wells

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
August
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wc have a great deal of eold, marahy, epringy, and, wliich cnnnot easily bedrained by ditchiug. t hns beun found by multitudes of experiment n Englniul and France, ihat suc!i land inay ülmcst alwaya bc drnined wiili no great expense. y boring ór sinking wells through theclnybeds vhich hold ihc water, into the thirsty snnd beds vbtch lie beneoth. Thousands of acres perfecty useless, and even pestilent inoras.1", havo been rendeied bighly fertile and healthful by ihis means. Every one who iaat nll ncquainted with wclligging Iría rmi.arked that h is not uncommun to oso the water by digging too far. Having perorated the dry cloy crusí, you con;e into a wet ravelly bed. when the water oozes in slowly. - n (he hope of getting mor, you dig down irough another bed of chy or Inte, and uuddeny strike throxgh into sand. The workmBn say ou have dug ihe bottom out. The water disaj. ear, and you must dig ihrough tweniy feet of and, perhaps, to reach any more. Whilc the ,-ell stops in this thirsty, or as the geologistssay oernieahlt bed, you mny turn any quaniity of water into it and it will disappear. We havo nu loubt that ni03i of the swams ;hich disfigure our country and adds neulier to its plenty noraaubriiy, and wliich cannothc drained by ditching without far more expenso tlan they would soon repiy, might easily be dried by boring holes from O to 50 fuet deep in thetr bottoma. The water would nol be lobt for the purposea of machincry, Tor it would Ieak out sonie where. There are curieus examples in Frnnce of the union of the Arieaia and draining wella. By the Artesia.i principie ihe wator Í3 causcd 10 rise in a public square, in a jet, but as the drainage of tho water euperfijially would disfguro the ground, and it woutd be expensive to lay pipes lor it, it isreturned rnmediatcly downwards into a permeable bed which had been perfurated by the auger in search o the spring. In the Tuisen Rustique 6peaka of n case in which ihree copper tubes, one cnclosed in the oihor. The outerone reaches down only to a thirsty bed, the next wi-.hin leaches to the first spring which ihrows up ths wator fifteen ieet abovs the curface, and the iiinermost reaclics a siill lower spring, which throwa w&ter thirty ft-el abovo ihesuriace. The water is ihus throwr. up, a jat within a jet, snd the wbole ainks down between ihe iwo ouierinoit tubes. The principie of dry weüs. ia applicable not only to the draining of marshes,but of cities and irnnulactuiing cetablishincnta. The healih of "uris is aaid to havo been alrusdy much proir.oted by the application of it. Instead of sending al the filthy water of the maunfacturinp and chénical procesa through the scwera, to throw up the most insufierablö efüuvia through all thsgratings t is gotrid of at once by sinkng it ut iis origin