ARTESIAN WELLS, AND HOW THEY ARE BORED.

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FROM time immemorial value has always been placed u|xm wells. So highly are wells esteemed that even amongst the most barl»arous races they are rarely poisoned in the path of an advancing enemy. In torrid climes good water is often unobtainable on the surface. The well, how ever, dug deeply down into the ground, reaches water which has percolated perhaps many miles horizontally along the strata of the earth from regions, such as hills, that are more favoured with rainfall than are the arid plains.

All ancient wells known to European civili zation wore formed by digging circular sbafts into the earth, and, where necessary, lining them with stone or with bricks,