JOURNAL 



O F 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



FEBRUART 1801. 



ARTICLE I. 



Obfervations on a Method of refloring the Utility of Wells, which have been abandoned in 

 confequence of the Mephitization of the Ground, By Cit. Cadat-de-Vaux, of the Society 

 of Agriculture of the Department of the Seine [in France. J Communicated at the Sitting of 

 that Society on the 16 Brumaire, in the year 8.* 



JL HE well of an houfe in la Rue de Beaune was infe£led for feventeen years by the 

 drainings, or tranfudations from the neighbouring privies. The proprietor defiring, if 

 polTible, to reftore it to the ufe of the inhabitants, applied to C. Dufour, who refidcs in 

 la rue traverfe f. St. Germain, and has fuccefsfuliy attended to that department of hy- 

 draulics which relates to fprings, wells, and fountains, who obtained the defired efFeft by 

 an happy application of the artefian procefs (precede artefien.) 



The artefian fountains and wells, as they are denominated in Flanders and Belgia, de« 

 rive their name from the Province of Artois, where they were probably invented, and arc 

 made as follows : 



* Tranflated from the Decade Philofiphique, An. VIII. 10 frimaire, p. 39S. 

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