From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Jan 1852]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22
Summary:
Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project