The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-28
formation.
ZEN WELL.
,..o.ity at Brandon, w.


IN. Looking over the
,ge4 dark well, noticeable
nd its great depth; draw
, tasting it, the extraordinary
rater excites attention. 1t is
,osely resembles pitcher of
been literally treated with
frozen we'll of Brandon,
cupant OF the house, Mr..
"A ,cr, 1853, for no other rea-
tied water; but, without
casual, he immortalized his
"a. scientific treatises. Co.
Of sofia sandy loam-and
penetrated next four feet of
re IL to Is feet of .frOyea
builders, utdiffering in no.
- frozen gravel; two feet
rcd water was reached
5ae shaft is II feet, and it
nt ohree feet of water Of icy
tet following the digging of
- Of water formed in it in a
April it did not freeze, but
a, for several feet above the
If June; this disappeared
Inning in the winter. Since
,ly frozen solid in winter and
ummer. During the winter
compelled 10 send his boy
eek it open: but last win
ia gave up this troublesome
ntricity, and obtained his
ors. In May last he sent
the ice completely broken
has remained open. By
shaft the light of the sun,
ing to the sides. This as
ne by UNFORTUNATELY bring
es of thin ice in the bucket.
aft, the owner says, is the
2 my desire to explore it,
ion to do so, but said he
to go down in such warm
Lad bern in it so much as
sm fastened on him and,
ny by so hard a scramble
OF the existence of ice
Il gave up the explora-
vel had been frozen during
Il, that fact would be sut-
70; but there is abundant
ted freezing and thawing,
nent source of cold there.
the same thing has been
Id shafts which had been
.ncc-seventy Feet, measured
in opposite directions
ral History Society in Au-
:, lsj9,--not because they
,ecause they wanted light
ut they found the temper
~ feet depth, while 60 de-
.; at the depth of 90 feet
temperature of which was
acond shaft layers of frozen
ice, and varying from two
foot in thickness, were
49,, ii 20 to 81 feet. Here every
~ and the workmen picked up
melted in their hands. Had
VI carried five feet deeper, ice
ave been reached also. This
ne ODD of September, and in
mont climate it was already
in the nights; but wa
eze in holes Is inches deep.
fish story without having it
w bigger one, and every
rreater wonder just discover
out y statement from some
,Imc long time before. The
i has its rivals. An "ice
MIA has been discovered in
ne of the .A,aer'cnn J9vad
where u huge mass Of de.
rocky wall Of several hun
-reads horizontally as far; the
size and remain through
ice mountain" says the de-
the increased and unusual
conducting materials which
the next volume Of the same
Dbl similar mountain in
described, where u mural
has "a talus wall of loose frag-
!, area of thirty acres; ice is
line from September to July.
been found in the Alps and
and in Italy. lee is found
10 feet during the summer in
= It Fort Henry, n. Y, and
ms little way north of Bran.
nd in summer. At Yakootsk.
" degrees, well was bored
% a depth OF ~ feet, and was
stimated that a depth of $50
tired to overcome the FROST
lMurchinson's Russia, vol. |,
a shaft at this same place,
. temperature was IS degrees
erect rivals of the Brandon
y there are such. A well -
in 1858 through gravel and
Ilss,, which has several times
,c winter. In the american
- first series, vol. 36, page 164,
feet deep, at Oswego, N. Y,
:" for four or five months in
- solid as to be entirely use
nts." The sides in the WIN
to contract the bottom into a
"A diameter, and the ice lasts
tne, 1914, a mcmorably cold
.ao Emery, of Lyman, Y. H..
q retrospect some years later
the town which had frozen
tcet from the surface of the
following, the ice had broken
large as Il wash-tub was float.
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~, the Brandon well would be-
WE'LL" for it is not visibly fro
amer; its present open condi.
owner explained to me, is due
a it completely open in Nav
tture of the water is now
Dove the freezing point. A
!e are coming to see it," the