1823.] 
a great pity, that all the old Danish 
and Swedish poctry has not been ren- 
dered into English, and placed side by 
side with their more southern children; 
from whom, indeed, they never ought 
to be separated. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE felt an interest, since read- 
ing the ictter of X. Y. in p. 200, 
to leara what M. Garnier, engineer of 
Mines, or his patrons, the Society for 
the Encouragement of French Indus- 
try, may have published, as ‘ elemen- 
tary and practical instructions,” for 
piercing the earth in search of water, 
in what they call Artesian wells; and 
myself, and many others, would feel 
obliged by seeing translations of all 
which may have been published 
abroad, answering the description 
here quoted, either inserted progres- 
sively in your Magazine, or published 
in a separate pamphlet. 
Eight years before Mr. William 
Smith had published any thing for 
explaining the geological structure of 
England, which then was scarcely at 
all understood, 1 was enabled, from 
haviug been his pupil, to explain 
briefly, in your twenty-third volume, 
page 211, those parts of bis discove- 
ries, verified by myself, which relate 
to the origin and course of springs of 
water within the earth, and to apply 
these to the sinking of deep wells, 
particularly in the vale of the Thames: 
since then, Mr. Smith’s large and 
small geological Maps of England, also 
his very detailed Maps of the Coun- 
ties separately, his Sections of Strata, 
&c. have been published by Cary, St. 
James-street; and numerous papers 
expressly on the subject have been 
printed, which long ere this ought to 
have made the principles of deep well- 
sinking or boreing {or water suflicient- 
ly familiar to the British public, to 
have guarded it against quackery ; 
but, that such is not the case is exem- 
plified by those persons who have 
lately gone about the country, pre- 
tending to be able in any situation to 
procure water, on or near to the sur- 
face, by boreing; and who, in their 
ignorance of the principles and local 
facts of the stratification, have rashly 
undertaken, in many instances, to 
obtain what nature withholds; where- 
by mnuch useless expense has been in- 
curred, and great disappointments 
9 
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Mr. Farey on Artesian Wells and Boreholes, 
309 
followed, and led to several disputes 
with such persons, which are now 
pending. 
I have always considered it impro- 
per to withhold information, as to the 
principles of an art soimportant as the 
procuring of one of the prime necessa- 
ries of life; and have not scrupled to 
communicate, on very liberal terms of 
remuneration for my time, every in- 
formation, as to the application of 
these principles to practice, in parti- 
cular spots or cases, which an expen- 
sive study and long experience has 
furnished me; but, as the giving of 
advice, as to the procuring of water, 
(or the shunning or getting rid of it, in 
other Cases,) is a material branch of 
the professional practice by which I 
live, [ trust no one interested, who 
may have written to me, will feel 
offended at my declining to give gra- 
tuitous advice, especially in the dis- 
putes above alluded to. 
Howland-street; Oct.6. JoHN Farry. 
—_—— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL of @ LADY, during a@ recent 
TRIP do FRANCE, 
(Continued from p. 227.) 
EDNESDAY, July 31, 1822.— 
Went to Galignani’s. Mr. T. 
called, and gave me a ticket to see the 
Palais Lycée Bourbon, now inhabited 
by the Duchess of Berry. 
Thursday, Aug. 1.—Went to see 
the Palais Lycée Bourbon, in Rue St. 
Honoré, near the Champs Elyseés: it 
was the residence of the Duke of 
Wellington, at the time of the allied 
powers being in Paris. ‘The gardens 
are laid out in the English style. The 
palace is small, but extremely elegant. 
The bed-room of the Duchess of 
Berry is very superb, that of the Puke 
is fitted up with great elegance; it is 
entirely hung with rich yellow silk, to 
represent a tent or pavilion: there 
was an elcvant wardrobe made of the 
root of elm; also a long glass, behind 
which was a weighing machine. There 
is a good collection of cabinet pic- 
tures, chiefly Flemish: one room, 
beautifully carved and silvered, is 
entirely white,—the chairs are white 
and silvered, furniture white silk, with 
silver lace, and an elegant time-picce. 
There is a clock in the children’s room, 
with an organ underneath. The library 
is very pretty.—In the evening walked 
in the gardens of the Tuileries. 
Friday, 2d.—I went to the Louvre, 
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