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ARTESIAN WELLS , the name properly applied to water-springs rising above the surface of the ground by natural hydro-static pressure, on boring
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
Artois
century ; and there is, within the old Carthusian convent at Lillers, another which dates
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
Algeria
great
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