# Water pollution—Wells

Author: Watson, Irving A. (Irving Allison), 1849-1918

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62174

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Water+pollution%E2%80%94Wells+Watson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

in many a sequestered nook, where the beauty of the scene gave to the soul its grandest appreciation of nature’s handiwork; but the poet’s song and the painter’s canvas are too often the false airs and the tinsel drapery of Momus—fun and folly. But poets and painters live in a realm uncongenial to the startling facts of modern chemistry. Virgil would undoubtedly have been as ready to have believed that H₂O represented a glass of milk, as that it was the equivalent of pure water; while, if Raphael had been told that the pool of Bethesda was abundant with “albuminoid ammonia,” he might innocently have believed it to be “something good to eat.”

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-pollution-wells-62174/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-pollution-wells-62174/chapters/2/index.md)