Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
HYDROSTATICS.Fig. 3. 79 … 9o. Artesian wells.—All springs and fountains illustrate thelaw of equilibrium of liquids in communicating vessels, artesian wellsbeing the most remarkable examples. The water accumulates betweentwo impervious strata of the earths crust, which curve up to the sur-face of the ground like a basin.…
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