Dr. Lathrop’s account of the. springs and wells in Boston, 61 
and from the elevation of the ground, the water might be sent, in re- 
freshing streams, to the greatest part of the town. ‘The comfort, 
which the inhabitants might receive in the heat of summer, from 
streams sent tothem from the hills, which the Author of nature hath 
given us, not more for ornament than for use, would be very great ; 
but while this comfort is quite at command, it has hitherto been neg- 
lected. As advantages of high importance result, and may be caused 
still farther to result from the hills, which are placed on this peninsu- 
la, it is to be hoped, those hills will be regarded with a kind of religious. 
‘respect, and that the municipal authority will never suffer pos vene- 
rable heads to be brought low.. : 
To give some account of the depths below, as ell as the heights 
above the level of the sea, from whence water is taken for the supply 
of the town, I will mention what I have been told, relating to some of 
the deepest wells in the town. 
An intelligent proprietor of the well made a few years since, near 
the old fortification, at the southwesterly entrance from the neck, gave 
me the following history of it—Where the ground was opened, the 
elevation is not more than one foot, or one foot anda half, above the: sea, 
at high pe. The well was made very large. After digging about 
1 body of clay, the workmen prepared for boring. At the 
depth of 108 or 110 feet, the auger was impeded by a hard substance. 
This was no sooner broken through, and the auger taken out, than the 
water was forced up with a loud noise, and rose to the top of the well. 
After the first effort of the long confined elastic air was expended, the 
water subsided about 6 feet from the surface, and there remains at all 
seasons, ebbing and flowing a little, with the tides. 
_ Observing a small pump, placed by the side of a large in GE 
mioeswel, F ee “and 
