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Title: The Family tutor
Year: 1851 (1850s)
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Subjects: Self-culture
Publisher: London : Houlston and Stoneman
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e which conductedthe water from the roof; every rain re-freshed the supply, and as it was drawnfrom the bottom of the cistern, the tem-perature was cool and pleasant. Rainv/ater is the purest in nature. In this case it was conducted from ahigh slate roof, on which no dirt couldaccumulate, and the cisterns had requiredcleaning but once in six years, and thenfrom no defect in the water. At no timehas that been disturbed, or lost in theleast its pure and v.holesome taste ; andthat flat and rainy taste, so peculiar to it,when caught in open vessels, has neverbeen noticed. It is strange that thesesimple and interesting facts are not moregenerally known and acted upon. The costof cisterns is but a trifle, and we commendthis cheap mode of obtaining pure water. Adversity. — Adversity exasperatesfools, dejects cowards, draws out the fa-culties of the wise and industrious, putsthe modest to the necessity of trying theirskill, awes the opulent, and makes theidle industrious. 24 DROPPING WELLS.
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DROPPING-WELLS. If you journey through Yorkshire, besure to stop opposite the ruius of Knares--borough Castle, because, on the south-westbank on the river Nidd, you will observethe petrifying spring of Knaresborough,—the celebrated dropping-well—wherethe peasants and the needy crowd to maketheir humble fortunes by afterwards re-tailing small sprigs of trees, such as tlieelder or ash, or pieces of the elegantgeranium, the wild angelica, or the lovelyviolet, turned into obdurate stone.The petrifying properties of the dropping-well of Knaresborough, are generally well-known, and therefore we shall not enter intothe detail of the various substances exposedto the influence of its wondrous waters. It is well knov/n that, as water passesover land in its course to a given place,certain principles are absorbed from thesoil; and although the transparent fluidflows onward v/ithout betraying the mine-rals with which it is impregnated, yet itsproperties may be completely changedsince its depar

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