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to the spot, and take this opportunity of acknowledging the 
courtesy of the proprietors in affording me all possible informa- 
tion of the progress of the work commenced in November, 1893, 
and finished in August, 1894, and permitting me to publish its 
results. 
Mr. Thomas Mathews, of Manchester, was the engineer 
employed, and the use of a twelve-inch steel drill for the first 
200 feet, and anine-inch drill for the remainder, enabled good 
cores of the underground beds to be brought up and identified. 
The following section gives the series of beds passed 
through :— 
THICKNESS.} DEPTH. 
SECTION. Fr. In. Fr. In. 
( “Surface to level of 
| 
Pumping floor”... — — 3 0 
| Made ground, Reo ces ib Dy 6 
2.—“Blue clay”  (Lias) .... 23 6 33 0 
3.-—“ Blue shale” (Lias) ... 27 0 60 0 
< 4.—“Grey rock” (Lias) ... — 6 60 6 
I 5.— Blue clay” (Lias shale) 23 6 84 0 
ee 6.—‘‘Grey rock” (Lias) ... 1 6 85 6 
“a ¢ | ¢:—“Blueshale” (Lias) ... 21 © 107 0 
ms | 8.— “Grey rock” (Lias) .. a 108 0 
919! zw} 9.—“Grey bind” (Lias shale) 15 0 123 0 
5 & = | 10.—“ Grey rock” 2 D 125>50 
O | 11.—“ Blu shale”. 13 0 138 0 
es 2 12.—“ Blue shale ‘and Grey 
45 rock alternate” : ae 145 0 
a 13.—“Blue Lias rock.” Core 
= “154” and “177” con- 
4 tains traces of fossils 
and fish scales and are 
dense and crystalline... 42 0 187 0 
14.—“Blue Lias and marl alter- 
nate” ia ade 211.0 
15.—“ Blue Lias rock” : 8 0 219° 0 
4 { 16.—“ White limestone and 
14! = White Lias” ih 2 230 0 
8°) 17.—“ Brown marl ” (probably 
6 White Liasshale) ... 3 0 233 0 
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