Their example ought, surely, to have some weight with us, when making up an opinion on this subject. To suppose that they would expend millions of money to procure water from a distant source, or to raise it from their rivers by powerful machinery, when at the same time they could obtain a sufficient supply, and as good an article, at a comparatively trifling expense, by sinking wells within the bounds of the city or village, is to suppose them destitute of common sense and prudence. By a "report on the subject of introducing pure and wholesome water into the city of Boston, by Loami Baldwin, Esq. Civil Engineer," it appears that a careful investigation was made of the character, quality, and uses of the water taken from the city wells. The whole number of wells in that city was ascertained to be 2767. The water from 2085 of these wells was drinkable, though brackish and hard, and 682 of them were bad and unfit for use. There were only seven of the city wells which yielded soft water, occasionally used for washing, and from thirty-three of them the water was obtained by deep boring. "Within a few years, (says the report,) it has become common in Boston, and the vicinity, to bore for water, and to make what is called Artesian wells. But no certain or valuable result has grown out of these endeavors. I cannot find that any geological science has been acquired by any one to guide or check these fruitless attempts and great sums of ;