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Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
N your number for August you 
have given us an account of an 
overflowing well at ‘Tottenham ; and 
in your Notices to Correspondents tor 
the month of September, you have 
mentioned the ‘‘intense interest” 
which the subject has excited, If you 
will refer to the Transactions of the 
Royal Society, it appears that in the 
year 1794 Mr. BENJAMIN VULLIAMY 
sunk a weil ai Norland-house, belong- 
ing to a relative of his, four feet in 
diameter, and 236 feet deep, taking 
the usual precautions of keeping out 
the land-springs, as fast as they appear- 
ed. When they had proceeded to 
this depth, they had reason to suppose 
that a current of water was running 
not yery far beneath them; they then 
employed a borer of five inches and a 
half in diameter, and, after proceed- 
ing with it twenty-four fect further, 
and driving a copper pipe of the same 
diameter into the bore hole, a mixture 
of water and sand rushed through the 
pipe, which in an hour and twenty mi- 
nutes filled the well, and overfiowed 
its mouth. But their diiliculiies were 
not at an end: for the sand subsidiag 
iv the well, overcame in a very great 
degree the power of the water, and it 
occasioned many days’ labour, and a 
consequent heavy expense, to remove 
the sand as fast as it rose. However, 
at length they were amply repaid for 
their trouble, for the well continued 
regularly to discharge forty-six gallons 
of water per minute, 
This is a very slight sketch of the 
manner in which Myr. Vulliamy pro- 
ceeded in prosecuting his object; 
those of your readers who feel the 
degree of interest which you mention, 
will no doubt obtain a sight of the 
paper itself, which is very explicit, 
and occupies eight pages. A plate is 
annexed, which completely removes 
any difficulty that may occur. 
Sherborne, Dorset ; J. GOUGER. 
Sepl. 24, 1822. 
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GREECE in its RELATIONS with EUROPE ; 
by MONS. DE PRADT, ancien Arche- 
végue de Malines. 
! CRADLE of the sciences and 
the arts. O!.thou Mnemosyne, 
who, in giving birth to the Muses, 
spread that dawn of day over the uni- 
yerse Which illuminated and inspired 
On Well. Boring.— Greece in ite Relations with Europe. [Nov.1, 
thy illustrious sons,—how hast thou 
since been trodden under the foot of 
man! Thy gods had abandoned thee: 
thy models of ancient glory and vir- 
tue had become a dead letter to the 
barbarous tribes, when they sacrilegi- 
ously place a stone upon thy tomb, to 
close it for ever. 
But darkness is no longer visible; 
the spark of liberty rekindles round 
the shades of thy fathers ; ard is there 
any where to be found a soul in this 
earthly tabernacle, who, having shed 
tears over thy misfortunes, would not 
cheerfully contribute its ingenuous 
promises of support? 
Althoughrthe principles of a narrow 
policy;—parching as the south winds, 
—had dried up in our hearts'a ge- 
nuine spirit of loyalty, partaking of the 
tender feelings which grow out of the 
sacred fire of humanity; let me aspire 
with a trembling hand, in the decline 
of life, to promulgate to the universe 
an important truth, that all pity is not 
extinguished among us. Let me also 
endeavour feebly, though faithfully, 
to exhibit an outline of thy ancient 
glory and portentous fall, accompanied 
by a distant view of the new destinies 
which the hand of time has prepared 
for thee. 
There have been revolving ages since, 
gifted by Heaven, thy towering genius 
ruled among the sons of men. The 
heathen mythology was thy workman- 
ship, destined to embellish a code of 
laws, emanating from thy councils, to 
which the whole world submitted in 
its turn. Its inhabitants knew only 
thee, and held no intercourse but with 
thee. It was thee who peopled the 
confines of Asia, Sicily entire, and part 
of Italy. 
The courage of thy children spared 
Carthage from the ,arms of Regulus, 
and paved the way for the great work 
reserved for the Scipio’s to accom- 
plish ; a handful of thy veterans cross- 
ed the states of the successor of 
Xerxes, and the great king humi- 
liated himself before thy people. Soon 
we arrived at an important era, when 
the enjoyment of peace preserved for 
a time the splendor of those crowns, 
which Apollo and Mars had united’on 
thy brow. 
What besides was the spectacle of 
these times? Immortal names among 
thy citizens attracted the admiration 
of gods and men. Neighbouring na- 
tions, wherever thy boundaries were 
within reach, associated in thy games ; 
harkened 
ee 
ee —— 
