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thrown, and we afterwards chose the medium. 

 The first column marks the spoutings of the water, 

 in the order in which they followed one another ; 

 the second, the time when these effusions 

 happened ; the third, the height to which the 

 water rose ; and the last, how long each spouting 

 of water continued. 



Time. Height Duration. 



No. 1 at 6 42 A.M. 30 feet. 20 seconds. 



2 6 51 6 20 



3 7 16 6 10 



4 7 31 12 15 



5 7 51 60 06 



6 8 17 24 30 



7 8 29 18 40 



8 8 36 12 40 



The pipe was now, for the first time, full of water, 

 which ran slowly into the basin. 



9 9 25 48 1 10 

 10 10 16 24 10 



At thirty-five minutes after twelve, we heard as 

 it were three discharges of a gun under ground, 

 which made it shake ; the water flowed over 

 immediately, but instantly sank again. At eight 

 minutes after two, the waters flowed over the 

 border of the basin ; at fifteen minutes after three, 

 we again heard several subterranean noises, though 

 not so strong as before ; at forty-three minutes 



