SOME PECULIAR WELLS.
Robert T. Hill of the United States geological survey adverts to the stories as to a great subteranean lake or sea beneath Nebraska, Kansas, and a part of Indian Territory which are going the rounds of the press They are accompanied by details relating to bottomless ponds occupying areas where patches of land have sunk and disappeared. Other reported phenomena supposed to be in the same connection are roaring wells in which the water ebbs and flows.
Mr. Hill says: 'So far as the wells are concerned, they arc based on fact. I myself have seen a number of wells in which the water rose and fell at intervals. This is not an uncommon phenomenon of the West. It has a relation to changes of the barometer, When the barometer is high, the pressure of the atmosphere being greater, the water in such wells and springs stands at a low level. On the other hand, when the mercury in the glass is low, the diminished pressure permits the water to rise. The surface level varies from day to night for the same reason.
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