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through which the water from the Dublin mountains appears to force 
itself to the surface of the earth. 
The ceasing of the stream or great supply from the old locus of the 
well of St. Patrick, in St. Patrick’s-well-lane, or Nassau-street, and the 
appearance of so much water at a lower level, in the continuation of the 
same line of street, may indicate that the crack in the calp rock has closed 
towards the west, and opened towards the east, from whence, latterly, se- 
veral overflows of water have occurred without apparent cause, possibly 
in connexion with slight earthquake pulsations or movements, some of 
which have been noticed, suggesting the possibility that the change of 
the locus of the adit of the spring water, which originally took place 
apparently behind the house No. 9, Nassau-street, has now, im a great 
degree, gone towards Leinster-street; for the wells behind Nos. 9 and 
15, and in Morrison’s Hotel, at the corner of Dawson-st.—all claiming, 
with the well on the opposite side of the street, accessible from the Pro- 
vost’s garden, to be the veritable southern well of St. Patrick—never 
now overflow, or produce a constant stream, and that a large one, too, 
which the extant notices of the southern well of St. Patrick lead us to 
believe existed before 1728 ; just such a stream of water as, we may in- 
fer, runs, in a great measure, to waste into the sewerage of the lower 
parts of Leinster-street, é&c. 
It is this supply of water, not long since utilized in the College Park, 
in the baths, and wells, and the pump wells outside the College walls, 
we would propose more generally and publicly to utilize, by means of 
public pumps, to which all might have access. In the same way, we 
would propose that the water belonging to the ancient supply of the 
northern well of St. Patrick should be more generally utilized by means 
of public pumps. - 
The same plan the author would extend to the immediate locality 
of the St. Patrick’s well, which, till lately, was accessible in the cathe- 
dral church of St. Patrick; and also to the waters of all the ancient 
holy wells in other parts of the city, north and south. And thus it is to 
be hoped a great public benefit (which has, by sufferance of Mr. Carton, 
Mr. Anderson, Mr. Lalouette, and others, on the north side of Dublin; 
and of Mr. Nichols, Mr. Farrell, and others, on the south side; and 
of the Linen Hall, the College, the Bank, the Mansion House, the Royal 
Dublin Society, been allowed the public, more or less) should be again 
put on the ancient footing; and all be allowed free access to the old 
spring water, which is everywhere so abundant beneath the subsoil 
of the city. 
The general elevation of the ‘‘plat’’ of the city has apparently 
lowered the overflow levels of the natural springs, the water of which 
is now generally accessible only by means of pumps, which it is proposed 
to place in many places of the city, where they may be accessible to all, 
at all hours, and free from any hindrance of neighbours or others. 
Mr. Clibborn concluded with a hope that, if this were done, health, 
morality, and economy would be greatly promoted within the city; and 
