had. to procure from the Water Company — would be supplied ; 

 and even although this water should turn out to be unfitted 

 for gardening purjDoses, and it should be found necessary to 

 obtain what was required for gardening from a Water Com- i 

 pany, a large saving would stiU be effected by getting the 

 main su|)ply from the Artesian well. 



The work has now been completed, the well bored ; and the 

 decision of the Council, as well as the confidence of the engineers, 

 has been justified by the result. Not only has the well been sunk 

 at the estimated cost, and water procured at the expected depth, 

 but it has been found of the purest and softest quaUty, and in 

 such abundance that, instead of supplying merely from 100,000 to 

 110,000 gallons in the 24 hours (the quantity stipulated for), it 

 could readily supply a million gallons in that time if larger pumps 

 and more powerful engines were employed. The total depth sunk 

 and bored is 401 feet — a well having been sunk to the depth of 

 226 feet, and a bore thereafter carried down 175 feet farther. j 

 The accompanying woodcut shows the nature and depth of ! 

 the geological formations through which the well passed. For 

 the sake of contrast, a similar cut of the Artesian well which | 

 supphes the Trafalgar Square fountains, the Palaces, and Pubhc \ 

 Ofiices, is placed alongside of it. The latter sketch, so far as the 

 strata and their depths are concerned, very well rejjresents the 

 usual relations of these as found in numerous other Artesian 

 weUs which have been sunk in the London basin. It will be 

 seen that the strata at the spot bored by the Society difi'er some- 

 what from the others — ^the London clay, especially, being found of 

 much greater thickness than is usually the case. It would appear 

 as if, in ancient days, the spot over which Kensington Gore now 



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