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he called me and received farther orders, The la- bourer accordingly fell to work; but he found the ground fo hard, that, in the courfe of two days,

he had only penetrated to the depth of akout five feet. During that time I frequently vifited “the work, to examine appearances. Nothing remarkable occurred, fave that little peering {prings often were difcovered, through which the water iffued; but the quantity of water that came from them was not fuch as to interrupt

the work... On the morning of the third day,

about breakfaft time, the labourer called on me, and faid, that as his ftroke gave a douf found, (that was his phrafe,) he had called me according to my defire. I went immediately with him to the Place, and having made him go down into the pit, I defired him to fhow me in what manner he could come out of it. He then pointed out to me a kind of fteps he had made into the clay on one fide; and having lent him my hand to affift him, tore he could get out very quickly. J then ordered him to take a kind of fharp pointed iron crow, with a crofs handle and foot to iE; which he had found a very ufeful tool in loofen- ing the clay, and elve a ftroke of that with all his force upon the bottom, which he did.—On this,

to his great furpr ife, the tool penetrated a thin

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