34 The Social Economist, No. 
Depth Price of Price of 
in Feet. Boring. Well-sinking. 
150 eeoees 20 O O cees W715 
160 --+e++ 29213 4 oe 80 0 
170 eese-e 2510 O «sees 89 5 
180, 002000 98 10:0 eoscee 99 O 
190 sseeee SIL 1B 4 reeeee 109, 5 
900 sani $5 0 O «ereee 120 O 
The curious andimportant fact, that 
subterraneous fountains of water could 
be tapped in certain situations, was by 
accidentlong ago broughttolight, in dif- 
ferent districts inthis kingdom, viz. that 
there are situated below the surface, 
in many low situations, certain porous 
strata of open-grained sand or fissured 
stone, charged with a supply of water, 
in such a pent or confined state,* that 
on the sinking of a well, or making a 
bore-hole, down through the super- 
incumbent strata, to reach any such 
water-charged stratum, the water 
therefrom would rise through such new 
opening, and overflow on the surface, 
. Many such overflowing wells haye 
long existed in and near to London, 
and in various other parts of the king- 
dom; and we are enabled to mention 
the following instances, viz. in the 
Adelphi (George’s); in Addle-hill, 
Thames-street (Rudd’s); in New 
Bond-street (No. 110); in Park-lane, 
Putney (Daniel’s) ; in Richmond town; 
at Twyford (Wilan’s); at East Acton 
(Overy’s); at Knotting-hill, or Ken- 
sington Grayel-pits (Vulliamy’s); at 
Tottenham (Forster’s, J. and W. 
Rowe’s, Smith’s, &e.); at Tottenham 
High-Cross (Wilkinson’s, &c.), &c.— 
At the New-Inn, south of Silsoe, in 
Bedfordshire ; at Cambridge city (east 
part), and at Wimpole, in Cambridge- 
shire; at Alford, in Lincolnshire, and 
at numerous places in the adjacent 
coast-district of that county, viz. at 
Saleby, Sutton, Trusthorpe (Hill’s, 
Taylor’s, &c.), &c.—At Duncehill, 
north-west of Hull, and near Leeds 
(Gott’s, Marshall’s,) in Yorkshire; in 
and near Derby town (several), and 
at Oakthorpe, in Measham (an old 
coal-pit), in Derbyshire, &c. &c. 
Bore-holes, made by the large 
augers used by colliers and others, for 
deeply penetrating and examining the 
strata, have at various times, and) in 
Bie! a ee 
* The elevated ranges. of chalk-hills, 
flanked by sand, which surround London, 
(except eastward,) and in a depressed 
form underlie its thick clay strata, explain 
the sources of the subterraneous waters, and 
the cause of their tendency to rise in the 
deep wells of the London Vale; see our 
23d volume, p. 212. 
1.—Boring for Water. [Aug. 15 
many places, been the means of tap- 
ping springs of water, concealed and 
confined beneath the surface, as above- 
mentioned; which water has after- 
wards risen, and continued to overflow 
the tops of such deep bore-holes. Ac- 
cidental discoveries of this kind have 
also been made at Husbands-Bos- 
worth, in Leicestershire; Sprinks in 
Ednaston, in Derbyshire; at Toton, 
Dirty-Hucknal, and Kirklington, in 
Nottinghamshire; at Leighton’s-mill, 
near Wakefield, and at Bridlington, 
in Yorkshire; at Willoughby, near 
Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, near Com- 
longon Castle, Dumfrieshire, &c. 
The inhabitants of the coast-district 
of Lincolnshire, above-mentioned, 
from having long observed certain 
forcibly-rising fountains of water, 
which are there called “ Blow-wells,” 
and having noticed also the modern 
overflowing wells, which have been 
alluded to above, have ingeniously 
conceived the practicability, of saving 
the expense and trouble of a well; 
and accordingly began, twenty years 
since or upwards, to substitute a bore- 
hole, penetrating to the spring; into 
which perforation a leaden or tin pipe 
was inserted, and tightly fixed therein, 
by a close stopping of tempered clay, 
rammed into the hole round the pipe. 
A wooden pump-case, of the usual 
construction, (except wanting a slit 
for the sweep or handle,) was then 
erected around the pipe; and, through 
the ordinary perforation for the spout, 
the top end of the bore-pipe was turned 
horizontally, and mostly produced 
ever afterwards, a fine stream of wa- 
ter therefrom. 
A correspondent of this Miscellany, 
in 1807, examined several of these in- 
genious substitutes for wells and 
pumps in use in the vicinity of Alford, 
viz. at Sutton (Wilson’s), at Trus- 
thorpe (Wilson’s, and others), &c.; 
and he received accounts, that they 
were common, almost throughout that 
coast-district, particularly in Marsh- 
Chapel, and near Great Grimsby. In 
some few cases, very near to the sea, 
the water diminished or ceased to flow 
from the spout during two or three 
hours daily, when the tide was at the 
lowest; notwithstanding the spouts 
were many feet elevated above high- 
water level. 
The modern discoveries regarding 
the strata of England, which we were 
the first to announce and to recom» 
mend to the attention of our readers, 
(see 
