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sufficient interest for publication : 
Ist, Through limestone, 28 feet; 2d, shale 2; 3d, limestone 231; 
4th, cherty rock 15; 5th, limestone 74; 6th, shale 30; 7th, limestone 
75; 8th, shale 14; 9th, limestone 38$; 10th, sandy shale 64; 11th, 
limestone 1284; 12th, red marl 15; 13th, shale 80; 14th, red marl 
minous marl 15; 19th, shale 80; 20th, limestone 134; 2Ist, cherty 
rock 62; 22d, limestone 138; 23d, shale 70; 24th, limestone 20; 
25th, shale 56; 26th, limestone 34; white soft sandstone 15 feet. 
The well was first commenced, we understand, as a cistern. From 
the surface of the ground, where it is fourteen feet in diameter, it has a 
conical form, lessening at the depth of thirty feet to a diameter of six 
feet. Thence the diameter is again lessened to sixteen inches, until the 
depth of 78 feet from the surface is attained. From that point it is 
diminished to nine inches, and this diameter is preserved to the depth 
of 457 feet, Passing this line the diameter to the present bottom of 
the well, is three and a half inches. 
The lowest summer stand of the Mississippi river is passed in the 
first strata of shale, at a depth of twenty-nine or thirty feet from the 
surface. The water in the well, however, is always higher than the 
water line of the river, and is not affected by the variations of the lat. 
tr. The first appearance of gas was found at a depth of 466 feet, in 
@ stratum of shale one and a half feet thick, which was strongly imbued 
and thirty-two feet below the city of St. Lo 
ne same layer; two hundred feet 
rning, lost much of its weight. In 
lowed, the salt in the water increased to 2} per cent. 
passed, was a bed of chert, struck at a depth of 1179 feet from the 
surface, and going down 62 feet. In this layer, the. salt in the water 
increased to full three per cent. The boring 
Y the statement above, in 
a bed : 
Promising that has yet been struck for a supply of water, such as is 
ranted, 
