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Encyclopedia Britannica



ARTESIAN WELLS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 669 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ARTESIAN WELLS , the name properly applied to water-springs rising above the surface of the ground by natural hydro-static pressure, on
boring
  a small hole down through a
series
  of strata to a water-carrying bed enclosed between two impervious layers ; the name is, however, sometimes loosely applied to any deep well, even when the water is obtained by pumping. In Europe this mode of well-
boring
  was first practisedin the French province of
Artois
 , whence the name of Artesian is derived. At Aire, in that province, there is a well from which the water has continued steadily to flow to a height of 11 feet above the ground for more than a
century
 ; and there is, within the old Carthusian convent at Lillers, another which
dates
  from the 12th
century
 , and which still flows. But unmistakable traces of much more ancient bored springs appear in Lombardy, in
Asia
 
Minor
 , in Persia, in China, in
Egypt
 , in
Algeria
 , and even in the
great
  desert of Sahara. (See WELL.)


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