As near as I can ascertain, however, from those who have endeavored to obtain correct information respecting it, and from my own judgment, I should suppose the base of the pillars at the upper end of the market-house, which stand three hundred feet from the water's edge, to be thirty-three feet above the surface of the river.

The bank is of a gentle descent towards the water, and gradually recedes from the river for one mile above the lower line of the city.
"In digging a well in the north-east part of the city, in the street near the Council House, the loam appeared to be about a foot and a half deep.
The workmen then passed through a stratum of blue clay of eight or ten feet, when they struck a vein of coarse sand, eight inches in thickness, through which the water entered so fast, as to almost prevent them from going deeper.

They, however, proceeded through another bed of blue clay, twenty or twenty-two feet, and came to a fine yellow sand, resembling quicksand, into which they dug three feet and stopped, having found sufficient water.

The whole depth of the well was thirty-three feet.
"The water is clear, and has no bad taste.

No vegetable or other remains were found, and only a few small stones and pebbles, such as are on the shores of the river.