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importance of the question, where shall we bore? both from an 
economical and especially a geological point of view. 
In that valuable paper contributed by our late member, Charles 
Moore, to the Geological Society of London, on the ‘‘ Abnormal 
Conditions of Secondary Deposits,” Q.J.G.S., vol. xxiii, p. 495, 
there is a description of a deep sinking in Kingsmead Street, in 
1838, to supply the needs of Pinch’s brewery, and a section given 
of the beds passed through. This attempt came to an unsuccessful 
termination, not from the want of water, but from certain troubles 
arising from the Bath Corporation rights over the hot springs, or 
the supposed infringement of those rights. That was the first deep 
boring recorded in our district. A second boring has recently 
been made, and this it has been my good fortune to witness 
by the courtesy of the late manager of the Bath Brewery. 
The site is on the E. side of Bathwick Street in the Brewery 
yard. A well some 13ft. deep already existed, and when I 
first visited the place in August, 1891, the boring rod had 
penetrated some 40ft. from the surface, and was, as I expected, in 
Blue Lias clay. The boring was undertaken by Messrs. Isler & Co., 
of Southwark, and John Messent was the intelligent foreman 
conducting the work. The boring was done by a chisel 64in. 
broad, and the scoop which brought up the debris was 6in. 
diameter. The rods varied in length from 10ft. 6in. to 4ft. 2in. 
From the nature of the tools the results were not so satisfactory 
from a geological point of view as would have been the case had 
a diamond drill been used, when the cores come to the surface 
whole ; but the scoop brought up sufficient material to indicate, 
after washing, the general character of the beds passed through.* 
SPURWAY’S WATER WORKS. 
| During the reading of the former notes I alluded to some trial — 
* Unfortunately the details of the boring are not permitted to 
be given.—H. H. W. 
