56 Dr. Storer's account of an 
column of spring water in the bore, is always supported at a 
height of forty-nine or fifty inches above the level of the tide, 
at any given time. This at least was the result of every ob- 
servation I made during several successive weeks, in the 
months of July and August last; and I am assured by Mr. 
Milne, on whose ingenuity and habit of accurate observation 
I can place the firmest reliance, that his habitual experience, 
for three years past, goes to convince him, that the variations 
from the rule stated above, are very inconsiderable during 
the summer and autumnal months ; but that in winter, after 
any unusual fall of rain, he has known the column of fresh 
water raised eight feet above the level of the tide, and the 
period of its discharge proportionally prolonged. 
For the use of the town and shipping, a reservoir of brick- 
work, capable of containing one thousand gallons, has been 
constructed within two or three yards, and upon somewhat 
a higher level than the summit of the bore, and is made to 
communicate with it by a tube of the same diameter, fitted 
with a valve, to prevent any reflux into the well. Two waste 
pipes are placed within a foot of the top of the reservoir, for 
the regular discharge of the water, and it has also been made 
to communicate with a pump adjoining, by which the reser- 
voir may be emptied ; and as the bore of the well is now 
closed and secured at the top, it is obvious that the com- 
mencement of the flow of water, from the pipes of the re- 
servoir, will happen a few minutes sooner or later at each 
tide, according to the quantity of water it contained at the 
time. Such, however, is the known regularity of the dis- 
charge from the waste pipes, that at the expected time of the 
tide several of the inhabitants are always on the spot with 
