chimney-pit

Updated: May 26, 2025

The trial-shaft, sunk by Mr. Walker in the centre of the southern line, was of considerable size, eight by twelve feet; and the depth measured thirty, of which four held water based upon clay-mud. The original native shafts to the south are of two kinds, the indigenous chimney-pit and the parallelogram-shaped well borrowed from Europeans.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative