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ARTESIAN WELLS, the name properly applied to watersprings rising above the surface of the ground by natural hydrostatic pressure, on boring a small hole down through a series of strata to a water-carrying bed enclosed between two impervious layers ; the name i ...

... mented by water brought from the Brenta in boats. The famous Venetian pozzi, or wells for storing rain-water from the roofs and streets, consisted of a closed basin with a water-tight stratum of clay at the bottom, upon which a slab of stone was laid; a brick ...

... in the construction of which traces of the outer walls and of huts, and several wells and a cistern, all belonging to the primitive village, were discovered, and also the remains of a villa of the end of the Republic. See T. Ashby in Papers of the British Scho ...

... ; he gives as the fundamental property of all the conies the equivalent of the Cartesian equation referred to oblique axes (consisting of a diameter and the tangent at its extremity) obtained by cutting an oblique circular cone in any manner, and the axes appe ...

... cle apostolique (3rd ed., 1864). Take for instance Clement. Lightfoot, indeed, dwells on the all-round "comprehensiveness" with which Clement, as the mouthpiece of the early Roman Church, utters in succession phrases or ideas borrowed impartially from Peter an ...

... ncultivated, and most of the crops and produce depend for water on rainfall and wells. The climate is hot, and in the low-lying, swampy districts very unhealthy, the prevailing winds are north-west and. south-east, the former hot and dry from the arid district ...

... s, the improvement of the ARAGON navigation of the Seine, and the boring of the artesian well* at I'.rcncllc In the year 1830 also he was appointed director of the Obscrvalory. and a* a member of the chamber of deputies he was able to obtain grants of money fo ...

... igious recluses who took up their abode in it, and gave a celebrity to the holy wells, altars and shrines, to which many are still attracted. No less, indeed, than twenty buildings of ecclesiastical or monastic character have been enumerated in the three islan ...

... tion of many books of devotion, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. Arndt here dwells upon the mystical union between the believer and Christ, and endeavours, by drawing attention to Christ's life in His people, to correct the purely forensic side of the Refor ...

... ing it, or acting in accordance with it. These means are such as the digging of wells, planting medicinal herbs, and trees for shade, sending out of missionaries, appointment of special officers to supervise charities, and so on. The missionaries were sent to ...

... ledde, lifting and throwing the heavy stone or barre, playing at tennis," and dwells upon " rennyng " as a "igood exercise and laudable solace." It is probable that the disciples of the " new learning," who had become prominent in Sir Thomas's time, endeavour ...

... ssed to the ist baron's younger son Robert John (1799-1870), bishop of Bath and Wells, from whom the later barons were descended, and who was also the father of Sir Ashley Eden (1831-1887), lieutenant-governor of Bengal. The ist baron had two distinguished bro ...

... e, Scotland, i m. S. by E. of Melrose, about equidistant from Melrose and St Boswells stations on the North British railway. They were once known as Eldune — the Eldunum of Simeon of Durham (fl. 1 130) — probably derived from the Gaelic aill, " rock," and dun, ...

... by Euripides (Med. 1342, 1359), whose Medea compares herself to " Scylla, who dwells on the Tyrrhenian shore." The wealth that was the source of this power of the Etruscans must in the main have been drawn from agriculture and forestry. The rich land with its ...

... . The tragedy was also well received in America, and was reproduced at Sadler's Wells in December 1861. This dramatic poem, its author's masterpiece, turns upon the voluntary sacrifice of Ion, king of Argos, in response to the Delphic oracle, which had declare ...

... t, Chard, Glasgow, Grantham, Huddersfield, Hull, Portsmouth, Swansea, Tunbridge Wells, Oldham, Scarborough and Hartlepool, but only six municipalities proceeded with the business. Glasgow opened its exchange in March 1901, Tunbridge Wells in May 1901, Portsmou ...

... orner of the state, it is succeeded by the short-leaf pine. Between the rising swells of long-leaf pine lands are impenetrable thickets of hawthorn, holly, privet, plane trees and magnolias. Loblolly pine, cypress, oaks, hickory, ash, pecan, maple, beech and a ...

... ried on extensively. Coal has been found in the district, and earth THEATRE oil-wells exist, but neither coal nor oil has yet been extracted in any quantity. There are 403 sq. m. of reserved forest. Three oil-wells were sunk in 1883 at Pedaukpin, but they were ...

... Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket. Since the memorable tenancy of Sadler's Wells Theatre by Phelps (1844-62), Shakespeare and spectacle have been honourably associated. Charles Kean's revivals at the Princess's Theatre (1850-59) deservedly attracted consi ...

... s. He does not contrast the Christian outlook upon ethics with all others, but dwells chiefly upon the supereminence of the Ten Commandments as a summary of duty. Other distinctions are named after an interval of two centuries. J. T. Gabler, for the first time ...

... y. Four of the English cathedrals have aisles on east and west sides, viz. Ely, Wells, Winchester and York, while at Chester there are aisles to the south transept only, and at Lincoln, Peterborough and Salisbury on the east side only. In some cases the transe ...

... nist and composer, was born at Tauaton, Somerset, and started as a choir boy at Wells Cathedral. In 1817 he became a pupil in London of the organist at Westminster Abbey, and after acting as deputy for some years he succeeded to this post himself in 1831 and h ...

... here in preglacial time, revealing firm and rugged ledges in the low hills and swells of the ground, and spreading an irregular drift cover over the lower parts, whereby the drainage is often much disordered; here being detained in lakes and swamps (" muskegs ...

... H. Murray Caleb W. West Arthur L. Thomas Caleb W. West STATE GOVERNORS Heber M. Wells (Republican) . John C. Cutler (Republican) William Spry (Republican) 1849-1850 1850-1857 1857-1861 1861-1862 1862-1863 1863-1865 1865-1869 1869-1870 1870-1871 1871-1874 1874- ...

... amy's Looking Backward (1888); William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890); H. G. Wells's Anticipations (1901), A Modern Utopia (1905) and New Worlds for Old (1908). Many Utopias, such as the Fable of the Bees and Erewhon, are designed to satirize existing socia ...