Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — A Nut tor the Savans. [ARTICLE]

A Nut tor the Savans.

I A ?ilr. Trombly has been sinking a well • ■. 7 ! lon the western outskirts of our village, in the progress of which the following astound-j ' ing fact appeared. At. the depth df.twentylive feet the workmen came upon frozen ground! Through this layer, some fifteen , feet in thickness, they worked their way by , dint of persevering effort, such as is always; necessary in digging compactly frozen earth. At the depth of forty feet v ater was obtained, vyhich nightly froze over—the ice forming some three inches in thickness.— Will some one account, on any known or unknown principles of philosophy, for these 1 astounding facts! We learn that the frecZ-T mg of the A’ater continues now that the well •iq “stoned up..”— Visitor, Briihdon Vt