J. L. Smith on the Artesian Weill at Louisville. 175 
- 76 feet, sand and gravel. 
100 feet, tolerably pure limestone, with fragments of fossils. 
12 feet, soft limestone mixed with clay. 
52 feet, tolerably pure limestone mixed with fossils, 
5 feet, limestone with ferruginous clay. 
81 feet, gray limestone. 
157 feet, limestone mixed with clay. 
149 feet, tolerably pure limestone with many portions quite white. 
18 feet, clay shale with little calcareous matter. 
.207 feet, limestone with a little blue clay shale. 
38 feet, same, little darker and more shale 
Next 94 feet, pure, very white limestone with fossil alternating with very 
dark limestone, color probably from organic matter, with some dark shale. 
26 feet, shaly limestone. 
40 feet, very light and hard pure limestone, 
1 foot, white clay. 
546 feet, gray limestone, alternating hard and soft. 
41 feet, sand rock—white,, 
4 feet, same, very fine and hard, with little limestone. 
60 feet, same, with more lime. 
72 feet, same, less limestone. 
308 feet, same sandstone with but little lime. 
6 feet, magnesian limestone, very hard. 
50 feet, sandstone again. 
it the urgent request. of many citizens of Louisville, the 
boring Was now stopped to give a fair test of the medical yirtues , 
its own pressure, rises in pipes 170 feet above the surface. 
e aoe by lesen sg 
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f canized gum elastic around it, No tubing is found necessary. 
*r any other part of the bori 
depth are considered, the flow of water from the well is un- 
led by any other artesian well yet constructed that flows 
tbove the surhhae for, although the Grenelle well at Paris deliv- 
nly exceeded in depth’ by 
the St, Louis well, and that to an extent of 118 feet. 
