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IV. Defcriptions of the King's Wells at Sheernefs, Languard- 
Fort, and Harwich. By Sir Thomas Hyde Page, Kat. 
F,R.S.; communicated by Lieut. Gen. Rainsford, F. R. 5. 
Read November 13, 1783. 
LIEUT. GEN. RAINSFQRD. 
STR, ee es 
HAD the pleafure to receive your obliging letter of the 
28th ult. mentioning, that it would be fatisfactory to the 
Royal Society to have a defcription of the wells at Sheernefs, 
Harwich, and Languard-Fort, which were made under my 
direction, whilft I commanded as Engineer at thofe places. 
I beg to acquaint you, that it will be neceflary to mention 
fome previous circumftances that occafioned thofe undertakings, 
which will rather interfere with the defcriptive part, and I fear 
intrude on the patience of the Society; but I fhall in this re- 
{pect hope for their indulgence, it being my with to explain 
the nature of the different operations as fully as poffible, that 
fimilar fituations, where water is wanted, may receive benefit 
from the experiments I have had the good fortune to fucceed 
in; and it cannot fail of affording me the higheft fatisfaction to 
have an opportunity of communicating this fubject to the 
knowledge of the public through the Royal Society. 
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