142 Experiments in Boring for Fresh Water. 
more facts, before we can fully admit the position taken by 
the author of the pamphlet, that fresh water may be obtain- 
ed by boring in every place, the facts already ascertained do 
certainly countenance this opinion—especially if we are to 
suppose, what candour must presume, that all the results 
have been published, and that unfavorable trials are narrated, 
as well as those of an opposite character. 
There can be no doubt that the research ought to be pro- 
secuted with vigor and perseverance, and especially in the 
most unfavorable circumstances. © If, for instance, as in some 
cases cited in this notice, good water, in abundance, can be 
brought near to the surface, from beneath the filth and pu- 
trescence of a great city; its corporation and its citizens 
ought, if necessary, to deny themselves their luxuries, and 
even a part of their daily bread, to procure what is next in 
importance to bread itself. New-York would then have no 
longer to regret, that a Schuylkill does not flow at her doors, 
and that the magnificent waters which wash her quays are 
Disbrow, and of his historian, occurred in a port on the Bri- 
tish side of the English Channel a few years since.* 
They were boring the rocks for the purpose of deepening 
the channel, when suddenly a jet d’ eau darted through the 
hole, the te 
above the waves. It ebbed and flowed with the tide, but was 
quite fresh and pure, and answered, afterwards, for watering 
the shipping of the port, it being necessary only to bring the 
boats, with their water casks, alone side. 
The circumstances leave no doubt that aerial agents, acting 
under pressure, 1n cavities, were in this case the moving power; 
and the geysers of Iceland and the spouting springs of the A- 
zores, fully prove, that the flow of water in jets, is not always 
ing to gravitation, and that aerial agency may be sufficent 
for any effect of this kind. The ground taken up by the 
writer of the pamphlet is therefore not altogether visionary. 
Still, with this admission, we should not be prepared to say, 
‘that aerial agency, capillary attraction, centrifugal forcet, or 
gravitation itself, is the uniform agent m raising water to, 
Mesh en are related, if we mistake not, in Tillock’s Philosophical 
PAs suggested by a writer in Vol X. p. 395, of this Journal. 
fe quote from recollection, but are confident that we. are substantially 
