iin at'lifichil Spring of W'aier. | 



which was previoufiy cut n\ a coaical form at oWe end, and 

 armed v^ith an iron ring at the other, was driven into the top of 

 this hole, and ftood up about two yards from the bottom of 

 tlie well, and being furrounded with well-rammed ckiy, the 

 new water afcended in a fmall ftream through tiie wocden 



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Our nextroperation was to build a wall of clay againil: the 

 morally lidos of the well, with a wall of well'bricks inter- 

 nally, up to the top of it. This completely flopped out every 

 drop of the old water ; and, on taking out the plug which 

 had been put in the wooden pipe, the new water in two or 

 three days rofe up to the top, and flowed over the edges of the 

 welk 



Afterwards, to gratify my curiofity in feeing how high the 

 new fpring would rife, and for the agreeable purpofe of pro- 

 curing the water at all times quite cold and frefh, I directed 

 a pipe of lead, about eight yards long, and three-quarters of 

 an inch diameter, to be introduced through the wooden pipe 

 defcribed above, into the ftratum of marl at the bottom of the 

 well, fo as to fliand about three feet above the furface of the 

 PTound. Near the bottom of this leaden pipe was lewed, be- 

 tween two leaden rings or flanches, an inverted cone of ftiff 

 leather, into which fome wool was fluffed to ftretch it out, fo 

 that, after having pafled through the wooden pipe, it might 

 completely till up the perforation of the clay. Another leadeiy 

 ring or flanch was foldered round the leaden pipe, about tv/o 

 yards below the furface of the ground, which, with fome dou- 

 bles of flannel placed under it, was nailed on the top of the 

 wooden pipe, by which means the water Vv^as perfedly pre- 

 cluded from rifing between the wooden and Uie leaden pipes. 

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