Dupont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : Report, analysis, and medical properties of its water, with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith.

  • Smith, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence), 1818-1883.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Dupont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : Report, analysis, and medical properties of its water, with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    of the more remarkable Artesian Wells, to contrast them with the one now under report. At the head stands the GRENELLE WELL AT PARIS. It was commenced in 1834 and completed in 1841, atGrenelle. which time the rod suddenly descended several yards, and shortly after, the wat«r rose to the surface in vast quantities. For the first fifty feet the boring was twelve inches in diameter, which was reduced to nine inches, and thus carried to a depth of one thousand one hun- dred feet; a farther reduction was made to seven and a half inches until the depth of one thousand three hundred feet was reached; and a final diminution to six inches to the termination of the well at one thousand eight hundred and six feet. From the completion of the well to the present time there has been a steady flow of over half a million of gallons in twenty-four hours, of a temperature of 81°. KISSINGEN WELL IN BAVARIA. This is even deeper than the Grenelle well, being one . Kissingen. thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight feet; the last hundred and thirty-eight and a half feet passes through rock salt. From this well one hundred cubic feet of water gushes forth every minute. The water contains three and a quarter per cent, of salt. AIRE IN ARTOIS, In the monastery of St. Andre. This well was bored ,. . t L . J Aire in Artois. more than a century ago and has flowed steadily ever since. The water rises eleven feet above the ground, and supplies nearly two hundred and fifty gallons per minute. CHARLESTON WELL, IN CHARLESTON, S. C. This well has been sunk to the depth of one thou- Charleston, sand two hundred and fifty feet, and yields thirty thousand gallons in twenty-four hours, flowing ten feet