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There is likewife on the fame Eftate, iy ee another 
Spring, whofe Water is heavier, and fomewhat purgative, BH he oie 
ae Spring, in Sz. Thomas's Parifh, and another at Mn Eas ie 
St. Fobn’s, as well as Mr. Whitaker's Spring, in. St. Michae a as Bee 
ford good light Water : The latter, by its Vicin Ae the Sea, is 0 pecat 
. Sétvice to fupply the Navy, as well as other Velfels, in the adjacent Bay. 
The chief The chief Rivers are Sv. Yo/eph’s River, another running through the 
the liland, Parith of Sy. Andrew's, a Third taking its Rife from Mr. Bratkwait's 
Spring, and the Fourth near Codrington’s College. ‘a eee 
All the above-mentioned Streams, with fome others of lefler Note, on 
-___ this Side of the Ifland, fall into the Sea to the Eaftward. i 
Ay lf picts Our Springs and Rivets of any Note being thus taken briefly notice of 3 
"Tet us now proceed to confider our other Supplies, our Wells and Ponds. 
The former are dug with great Expence through, generally, a foft marly 
Rock, intermixt fometimes with Veins of an harder Nature. Thefe 
Wells are commonly in Depth from Fifteen to Fifty (9) Fathoms, and 
_~ their refpective Water *(efpecially if the lower Strata, from wheneg it 
gufhes, be Clay, Gravel, or Rock) is preferable, as‘ to its ‘Putity, to 
River-Water, the latter having generally feveral Impurities blown into it 
by the Wind, as well as contraéed from the different Soils it: pafies 
through, whereas the Well-Waters are very limpid and light. 
Mr.Ostern’s Among the Waters. of. many of thefé that I have examined, that 
Bee iron Mr. Osborne's, in St. Peter's Parith, excels every other, whether of 
eel Wells, Springs, Rivers, or Ponds, in this Tfand. ~ It is lighter by one 
"Grain, in fo {mall a Quantity as Sixteen cubical Inches, than the pure 
German Spaw Water. The Depth of this Well is not above Fifteen 
. ‘Fathoms, thro’ a fomewhat foft rocky Stratum, terminating in an hard firm 
Rock: An Hole being made in this, the Water guthes out from beneath ; 
and the fame being again ftopped with a Plug, and the remaining Water 
drawn out, the Bottom of the Well may be, and often is, clean wathed ; 
and then the Water is permitted to guth out afreth. 
I am of Opinion, that the Purity of this Water, above all other in the 
Ifland, is owing partly to the Situation of the Place : For, as the Well is 
dug thro’ feveral rocky Strata, beginning in fo very high Ground, that its 
Bottom is higher than the adjacent Plain 5 confequently it can receive no 
other Supply but Rain-Water, which (Snow-Water excepted) is the moft 
fimple of all others. And when this gradually penetrates thro’ man 
thick Lamine of porous Rocks, by this natural Diftillation as it runs 2 
refines ; that which is pureft pervading the clofeft separa by the MinutenefS 
of its Parts, whilft the groffer Particles, being arrefted in their Paflac 
‘fubfide, and cleave to the Rocks, ° & 
Another 
; (9) Te is not always that they come to Water, tho’ they die; Dept r aa 
~soblerved in the Eftate of Tobias Frere, Efq3 in the Pathe of Corif-Ghar he oe wali this T have 
five Fathoms, they found little or no Water. | POMS caer digging Thirty- 
