Recent improvements in arts, manufactures, and mines : being a supplement to his Dictionary (1844)
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857, Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857. Dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines · London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 33
', the waters will spout above the surface, and in the well c they will remain short of it. The same figure shows that these wells often traverse sheets of water that rise to different heights. Thus in the well c, there are five columns of ascending waters, which rise to heights proportional to the… … The older geological formations are seldom propitious to the construction of Arte- sian wells, on account of the compact massiveness of their rocks, of the few fissures or porous places in them, and of the rarity of filtering strata overlying retentive ones. It is therefore vain to attempt the…
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