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  GEOLOGY. 
  

  

  reference 
  to 
  other 
  wells, 
  the 
  omission 
  of 
  the 
  minute 
  divi- 
  

   sions 
  of 
  the 
  strata 
  are 
  unimportant. 
  

  

  Artesian 
  Well 
  at 
  Columhus. 
  

   Stratum. 
  Feet. 
  

  

  A 
  50 
  Ferruginous 
  clays 
  and 
  pebbles. 
  

   B 
  160 
  Green-sand, 
  composed 
  of 
  chlorite 
  of 
  iron, 
  &c. 
  

   C 
  83 
  Incoherent 
  micaceous 
  earth, 
  of 
  light 
  ash 
  color, 
  with 
  lig- 
  

   nite 
  and 
  pyrites 
  alternating. 
  

   D 
  7 
  Hard 
  brown-colored 
  argillite. 
  

   E 
  18 
  Fine 
  ash-colored 
  grit, 
  with 
  particles 
  of 
  mica. 
  

   F 
  12 
  Yellow-colored 
  hard 
  argillaceous 
  earth. 
  

   Gr 
  28 
  Tough, 
  brown, 
  argillaceous 
  earth, 
  difficult 
  to 
  bore. 
  

   H 
  13 
  Compact 
  green-sand 
  to 
  water, 
  temperature 
  65° 
  Fahr. 
  

  

  371 
  feet. 
  (See 
  Plate 
  XL, 
  Fig. 
  1.) 
  

  

  At 
  Aberdeen, 
  Monroe 
  County, 
  which 
  is 
  about 
  six 
  or 
  

   seven 
  miles 
  west, 
  and 
  about 
  twenty-four 
  north 
  of 
  Colum- 
  

   bus, 
  the 
  public 
  Artesian 
  well 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  is 
  five 
  hundred 
  

   and 
  twelve 
  feet 
  deep, 
  and 
  affords 
  about 
  ten 
  gallons 
  of 
  

   water 
  per 
  minute. 
  It 
  is 
  strongly 
  chalybeate, 
  imparting 
  

   a 
  deep 
  copper 
  tinge 
  in 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  to 
  the 
  tin 
  and 
  earthen 
  

   vessels 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  kept. 
  

  

  But 
  few 
  attempts 
  have 
  been 
  made, 
  I 
  believe, 
  at 
  Arte- 
  

   sian 
  wells 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  dividing 
  ridge 
  between 
  the 
  waters 
  

   of 
  the 
  Tombigbee 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  Pearl 
  River. 
  

  

  About 
  twenty-five 
  years 
  since, 
  one 
  was 
  commenced 
  in 
  

   Natchez, 
  in 
  which, 
  however, 
  a 
  moderate 
  depth 
  only 
  was 
  

   attained, 
  the 
  obstacle 
  being, 
  it 
  is 
  said, 
  the 
  quicksand 
  en- 
  

   countered 
  — 
  a 
  difficulty 
  which 
  the 
  undertaker 
  had 
  neither 
  

   the 
  experience 
  nor 
  the 
  ingenuity 
  to 
  surmount. 
  

  

  In 
  1848, 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Mr. 
  Lambuth, 
  residing 
  on 
  Section 
  

   2, 
  Township 
  7, 
  Range 
  2 
  E., 
  ten 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  Canton, 
  

   in 
  Madison 
  County, 
  bored 
  to 
  the 
  depth 
  of 
  two 
  hundred 
  

   and 
  eighty 
  feet, 
  when, 
  on 
  penetrating 
  through 
  a 
  sand- 
  

  

  