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Additional Notes. 



Information in regard to the above wells has been had from the 

 following sources ; 



No. 1. Dr. John Berryman. 



No. 3. Mr. .las. Ready. 



No. 5, 6, 7. Dr. R. Nicholson. 



No. 9. Mr. L. Jewett. 



No. 10-13. Messrs. D. P. Kent anil 



W. N. Biggar. 

 No. 16. Dr. P. Cox. 

 No. 18. Mr. Jas. Vroom. 

 No. 20. Mr. D. P. Kent. 

 No. 23. Mr. R. Keltie Jones. 

 No. 25. Dr. Geo. A. Hetherington. 

 No. 27. Messrs. John Kelly, W. Mur- No. 28. Mr. R. W. Connor. 



doch, C. E. and Count deBiuy. 



Nos. 5-7, Newcastle. In reference to Ritchie's well, Dr. Nichol- 

 son states that the interior of the pipe became clogged with a deposit 

 of blue clay, but was removed by passing a hard substance up and 

 down. 



No. 8, Chatham. The same authority states that the well near 

 the public wharf at Chatham, though 200 feet from the shore and 

 above tide level, is affected by the rise and fall of the tide in Miramichi 

 river, rising to the surface of the ground when the tide is full. 

 Dr. J. Baxter records four wells that are 100 feet or more in depth, 

 two of which throw the water above the surface of the ground two 

 and seven feet. 



Nos. 10-13, Sussex. D. P. Kent, the well borer, gives the follow- 

 ing as the succession of surface deposits at Sussex : At the top one foot 

 of loam, then thirty feet sand and gravel, then twelve feet clay of a 

 light grey color, then — gravel and boulders (clean and smooth), finally 

 ten feet of boulder clay. 



As Sussex has no system of sewerage, water supplied from ordinary 

 surface wells must be very liable to contamination. Prudence would 

 suggest the use of water for potable purposes from deep wells for this 

 and similarly situated communities. 



No. 16, Chatham. Maritime Sulphite Fibre Co. ("Pulp Mill"). 

 Dr. P. Cox says water was struck at 100 feet from the surface, there 

 was only a small flow, which in boring deeper was lost. At the depth 



