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Artesian well   /ˌɑrtˈiʒən wɛl/   Listen
Artesian well

noun
1.
A well drilled through impermeable strata into strata that receive water from a higher altitude so there is pressure to force the water to flow upward.





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... making the ideal of Confederation into a reality by building railroads and canals was borne by 600,000 people, which means again a large quota per man to the public treasury. People forget that you can't take more out of the public treasury than you put into it, that it is n't like an artesian well, self-supplied, and the truth is, at this period Canadians were paying more into the public treasury than they could afford,—more than the investment was ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut


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