The subject of water supply interests all who anticipate a much Jarger summer population at this resort. It has been asserted that any well dug to sea-level would give water too salt to be palatable. Per contra, the Russian missionaries have Arilled two wells hardly 200 yards from the sea and to about sea-level. These give water which they assert to be perfectly sweet. The second well is on land above the garden and is used to irrigate the grape-vines and potatoes, which appear to thrive. We were glad to notice a barbed wire extension of their farm. A native at this place said that not salt water but iron water is the thing to be feared in made wells hereabout, which remark we pass on to our aldermen,
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