Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — A Natural Well of Iced Water—Remarkable Ice Stratum. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Well of Iced Water—Remarkable Ice Stratum.

I From the Boston Transcript, April 25.

A gentleman of this city, widely known as an engineer and chemist of high rank, furnishes an account ot a remarkable stratum of ice found in digging a well in Vermont, whiLh he visited and examined last week. His description of the ice agrees with an account given by another ol our citizens wlio is a native oi the ncgib >rhood, and who •<as| inspected the famous well. 'There is seme curiosity to see whether dog days wili liiivje any affect upon the cold spring. “7b the Editor of the Transcript: An article has been going the rounds of the papers of late, under the beading of -Ice in the Eufth.” Having recently visited the spot where the ice referred to was found, I will state the facts as I learned them, for the benefit of your readers, leaving it for themt<> account tor the phenomenon as they think proper. “The latter part of last November, Mr. Andrew Twombly, of Brandon, Vt., commenced t? a well near his iiouse, situated about a mile from the center of the village of Brandon, on a tolerably level plain. Having excavated to the depth of fifteen feet, through sand and gravel, the workmen came to ground frozen solid, through which they continued to excavate the further distance of fifteen or six een leet before gettingthrough the frozen ground. “At the depth of forty feet, sufficient water having been obtained, th“ well was stoned in the usual manner. 'The character of the ground was the same throughout the whole distance, viz: coarse gruv 1 and sand the frozen portion interspersed with lumps of clear ice. At the time the well was dug, the surface of the ground was not frozen. Ever since the well has been dug, up to the present time, ice forms in the well and incrusts the stone at from fifteen to thirty feet from the surface, and the stir ace of the water, which is thirty-five feet below the surface of the ground, freezes over every night. On several occasions, when tiie bucket has been left in the well under the water over night, it has been found necessary to decend the well, and, with a hatchet, cut the ice in order to extricate it. J. H. B.” A New Sect in Europe —A Paris correspondent writes: “A curious new sect of Christians, called Tr insmigrationists, have of: late become very numerous in Fiance. Quite different from the Mormons, ttieir character is highly me al, and their creed Christian, only they include all animals in their idea of universal morality. They profess to believe ’hat being changed after death into some animal, will be thei’ purgatory- In Germany their : increase is immense.”