ARTESIAN See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

WELLS  , the name properly applied to See also:

• WATER

water-springs rising above the See also:

• SURFACE

surface of the ground by natural hydro-static pressure, on See also:

• BORING

boring a small hole down through a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of strata to a water-carrying See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

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 See also:

• EUROPE

Europe this mode of well-boring was first practisedin the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• ARTOIS

Artois, whence the name of Artesian is derived . At See also:

• AIRE

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 See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; and there is, within the old Carthusian See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent at Lillers, another which See also:

• DATES

dates from the 12th century, and which still flows . But unmistakable traces of much more See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient bored springs appear in See also:

• LOMBARDY

Lombardy, in See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor, in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, in See also:

• CHINA

China, in See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, in See also:

• ALGERIA
• ALGERIA (Algerie)

Algeria, and even in the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• DESERT

desert of See also:

• SAHARA

Sahara .