MEMOIRS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Recent Artesian Experiments in India. By 

 E. Vredenburg, A.R.C.S., Officiating Deputy Super- 

 intendent, Geological Survey of India. 



CHAPTER I. 



General Consideration. 



During the century which is now ending, the question of a 

 water-supply from artesian sources has from time to time attracted 

 the attention both of the Government and of the public in India. In 

 the year 1881 Mr. Medlicott summed up all the information avail- 

 able up to that date in a Memoir which was published in the 

 Records of the Government of India, 1 and in those of the Geological 

 Survey. 2 



The principle of artesian wells is now so generally understood 

 and has been so often described that there is 



Origin of water-supply. 



no need to enter into any detailed discussion 



1 Reports on Artesian Borings in India. Selections from the Records of the Government of 

 India, Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department. No. CLXXVIII, Calcutta, 18S1. 

 Artesian Borings in India. Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., Vol, XIV, pp. 205-238. 



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