33 



in Huniber's Compendious Treatise on the Water 

 Supply of Cities avd ToiLnit,p. SI (1876). and in 

 Journ. Soc. Arts, vol. xxv., no. 1278, p. 657 (1877). 

 Westenhanger. BoriDg. From Mr. H. B. 

 Macbesou (amonsst Mr. Topley's notes). No 

 water. 



Sandgate Beds :■■ 20 feet 

 Hythe Beds 56 feet 



Atherfield Clay 

 Weald Clay 

 Whitstable. Wnterworks, 1879 Sunk and 

 communicated by Messrs. Easton and Anderion. 

 483 feet abov« Oidoanco Datum. Shaft 72 tett, 

 the rest bored. Watf r-level 35 feet down. Yield 

 220,000 gallons a day. 



Thickness. Depth. 

 Surface soil 



f Stiflf yellow clay with joints 

 [London Clay) Blue cky, very liable to slip, 

 65 fp t' ' with large nakes of micas- 

 I chist crystals [selenitej 

 ^Hjird sandy clay, quite dry 

 [Oldharen ( Light coloured] sand 

 Beds , -f 20 it.] I Bed oi'stones [flint pebbles] 

 f Sharp sand 

 I Green sand 

 I Dark sand 

 [Woolwich & J Loamy sand and stones 

 Thanet Beds] ) Blue clay and shells 

 I Blue clay 



I Green sand and blue clay 

 l^iSandstone rock [ ? flints] 

 Chalk 



Possibly the Oldhavfin Beds should be taken 

 further down. The thickness of the Lower London 

 Tertiaries (between the London Clay and the 

 Chalk) is excessive. 



Whitstable. Waterworks. Another Well. In 

 the yard of the old works, near the station, y at a 



lower level than the foregoing-, 1899. Made and 



conimunicatfd by Messrs. Tilley. Surface water- 

 level 11 feet down. Chalk water-level 13a feet 

 down. 



Thickneas. Depth. 



Shaft [the rest bored ■ 28 



[London] Clay 17 45 



fSand, slightly loamy 18 63 



I Black [flint] pebbles 1 64 



[ ? Oldhftvpn J Sand 7 71 



Beds] ] Black [flint] pebbles 1 72 



I Sand 9 81 



LBlack [flint] pebbles 1 82 



f Hard dark sand 56 138 



I Shells and pebbles 1^ 139^ 



[Woolwich &J Shells and very hard sand 10 149^ 



Thanet Beds] ] Dark sand 46 195^ 



I Sandstone 1 196i 



LClay 18i 215 



Chalk and flints 164 379 



An account of the trial-bnring for Saltwood 

 Well (p. 32), in a letter from Mr. F. Brady to Mr. 

 Wilks (1H74), gives further details of the higher 

 beds, as follows : — 



Thickness. Depth. 

 Brickearth 13 13 



[ ? Folkestone Beds"". White running sand, 



with water 9 22 



Sandgate Beds. Dark grean impermeable 



sand 41 63 



Hythe Beds. Rag hassock and sand 14 77 



Mr. F. W. Turner also gave me the following 

 notes on the well in 1898. There is a heading, with 

 base 100 feet down, 6^ teet high, 8 broad at.d 101 

 long, running south-eastward. These show marked 

 fissures in the rock at top and at bottom. The 

 sides are bricked, being in sandy material. The 

 floor rock is two feet thick. Foul air comes in 

 quickly, with luw barometer and S.W, wind. 



SUMMER EXCURSIONS. 



The excursions were not quite so popular this 

 year as in some previous years. Some have been 

 well attended, and others productive of good re- 

 sults.notably thef xcursion toWalmer and Minster. 

 July 3rd. The follcving was the programme : — 



May 29.— Saltwood. 



June 7. — Wye College. 



June 19. — Elham. 



July 3. — Minster and Walmer. 



July 17.— Whitstable. 



Sept. IS. — Olantigh Towers. 

 The excursion arranged for August 20th to 

 Hastings by the Dover Sciences Societies fell 

 through owing to the visit to Dover of Lord 

 Roberts on that date, and the excursion arranged 

 for September 4th did not take place, because 

 members went to Walmer as well as Minster on 

 July 3rd. 



Mat 29th.— Saltwood. 

 A few members met at the S.E. Station and 

 determined to go, although the weather wa^s very 

 unsettled. The friends expected from Dover did 



not turn up owing to the threatening appearance 

 nt the weather, which, fortunately, remained fine 

 long enough for us to reach the gardens (which 

 were rather the worse for the rain) and return 

 without getting wet. After tea at Saltwood. most 

 of the party returned per rail ; those who cycled 

 back, unfortunately, got very wet. The party 

 included the President (S. Harvey. Esq.), Miss 

 Cole, Miss Hurst. Mr. W. Cozt^ns, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Austen, and the Hon. Secretary (Mr. A. Lander). 



"Those who only know the bleak Kentish coast in 

 early spring, and have a recollection of what the 

 east wind is — say, at Folkestone in an average 

 March, will have some difficulty in realising that, 

 within a few miles of the Just-mentioned town, 

 there are spots which have a climate thai would 

 do no discredit to the Isle of Wight. Even in the 

 lower Sandgate Road at Folkestone, except when 

 a sou'-wester blows, the air is mild and balmy 

 throughout the greater part of the year. 



At Sandgate, close by, the so-CJilled arum lily 

 (Richardia ^thiopica) Rud the tTA^rant Aponogeton 

 distachyum, flower freely in ponds in the open air; 



