5^> SOME ESSEX WEI.L-SKCTIONS. 



Roydon Temple Farm. 1888. 



Made and communicated by Mr. CI. Ingold. 



Shaft 20 feet, the rest bored. 



Water from 18 to 20 feet down. 



Thickness. Depth. 



(travel .^ 5 ... 5 



London Clay, with veins of black sand at 18 to 20 feet ... 20 ... 25 

 [Reading Beds.] Strong clay, with blue and red veins ... 16 ... 41 



Saffron V^2\At.Vi.— Byrd's Farm, N.E. of ihe town. 1875. 



Made and communicated by Mr. (i. Ingold, as also the next. 



Water 164 feet down. 



Thickness. Depth. 



r Blue clay 36 ... 36 



[Boulder Clay. J \ Rrown clay 8 ... 44 



(^ Clay and chalk 2 ... 46 



Chalk 124 ... 170 



Saffron Walden. — IVesiley Farm, N. of the town. 1889. 



Shaft throughout. A^'ater 163 feet down. 



Thickness. Depth. 



[Glacial Drift.] | Blue Boulder Clay 35 - 35 



"- -^ I Clayey gravel about lO ... 4^ 



Chalk, with layers of hard rock, 2 to 5 feet thick 123 ... 168 



Sheering. — Wells near Gladwyns, i. a little S. of the house {shaft), 

 2. at the lodge, a little N. {shaft j\7,feet, bored 8). 1890. 



Made and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold. 



\\'ater in i burst up suddenly from the bottom and rose to 



within 27I feet of the surface; in 2 it came in very slowly from the 



bottom. 



(I) (2) Depth. 



Soil 3 ... 2 ... 3 to 2 



( White clay 6 ... 6 ... 8 to 9 



[Boulder Cla}'.] \ Brown cla)- 15 ... 15 ... 241023 



i Blue clay 17 ... 28 ... 41 to 51 



[The water probably comes from gravel below the Boulder Clay.] 



South Shoebury. — For the supply of Sloeburyness Garrison. 

 Less than half a mile north-eastward of St. Ajidrew's Church. 

 1886-1889. 

 Communicated by Major E. Raban, R.E. (and from specimens). 

 About 23 feet above Ordnance Datum. 



Cylinders to 80 feet; then shaft to 170 (enlaiged from 115 down- 

 ward) ; the rest bored. After ])iercing the clay (434 feet) it was 



