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ter at the Bottom on our Sounding, and it having a 
new Curb, lately fix’d on > the Top, we provided our 
felves with Buckets - and Ropes,; and lower’d down a 
Man, who acquainted us, that it was clean’d, and the ' 
Ground funk four Feet deeper than the Curb at the 
Bottom. We then meafur’d the Depth of it, and 
found it 200 Foot, and artificially fteen’d the whole 
Depth with circular Portland Stone, • which is all 
entire, '^nd Hands fairj:fthe‘mean Diameter is four 
Foot eight’Jnches ; but^pbferving, tHat not one Drop 
of Water came into it, we refolved io try .whether 
we could' find any by' Boring jjn order thereunto, we 
applied ourfelves to make the necefiary. Preparations, 
by getting a Piece of I'iraber of about feven 'Foot- 
long, and boring it through with a three ‘Inch and 
a half Auger, which- Trunk we fix’d at, the Bottom 
of the "Well, and faften’d it by Quarters to the 
Curb at the Bottom, to prevent its raifing, and fill’d 
it all round three Foot deep with Clay, and on that 
laid four Courfe of Bricks for a Platform for the 
Men to Hand on in their boring,^' and got* alfo an 
Auger of two Inches and half, to bore through the 
Clay, but could not get all the uecelfary Appurte- 
nances till I'hiirjday the 26 th of Sept ember , when 
three Men at a Time began to bore, whom we 
fhifted every three Hours ; the Boring ‘ which they 
fent us up, was a very clofe bluifh Clay, which 
continuing the fame after three Days and a half bo- 
ring, we began to defpair meeting with Water; but 
on Monday the 30th of September^ in the Evening, 
as they were boring, the Auger ilipt down at once, 
and up came Water, to our great Satisfadion , and in 
