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Mr. William Whitaker nn wine 



Peckham. — Lpidhurst Road. Messrs, Gordon's Brewery. 1876. 



Sunk and communicated by Messrs. Docwra & Son. 



About 50 feet above Ordnance Datum. 



Shaft (chiefly cylinders) 115 feet ; the rest bored. 



Water-level, after pumping 9 hours, about 53 feet down ; 

 supply equal to 185,000 gallons in 24 hours. According to Mr. 

 J. Lucas (Journ. Soc. Arts, vol. xxv., p. 608), the v?ater-level 

 before pumping, in 1877, was over 48 feet down, and the yield 

 7700 gallons an hour. 



TT 1 r^^ f Clav aud sand 7 



^^"""oo"?.?^^' Yellowclay 9 



22 ft.l 



[Woolwich and 



Reading Beds, - 



54 ft.] 



[Thanet Sand, 

 48 ft.l 



Chalk 



(Blue clay 6 



Running sand 2 



Clay and sand 5 



Shells ^ 



Mottled clay 3^ 



Live sand 6 



Black sand 2 



Dark sand 3 



Brown sand, mixed with shells 2 



Mottled clay 2i 



Clayand shells 2 



Hard shell-bed, mixed with pebbles... ItV 



Mottled clay 11 



Pebble- and shell-bed 5 



Live sand 1 



.Pebbles and shells (hardened) 4 



Dark soft sand 25 



Live sand 14 



. Hard sand 3 



Dark sticky sand 5 



iFhnts 1 



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2854 



Beigate Hill. — Manor Farm. 



614i feet above Ordnance Datum. 



Made and communicated by Mr. W. Taylor, of Keigate. 



Shaft of 6 feet diameter, to 260 feet ; then gradually enlarged 

 to 10, with a heading 12 feet long. 



When at rest, 43 or 44 feet of water, at all seasons : will stand 

 10 hours' pumping, at the rate of 10,000 gallons an hour, and 

 then takes 3 days for the water to vise to its former level. 



Clay, with flints [on one side] 



Chalk on one side of the well, the clay 

 ending off at 32 feet 



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