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Sommerville sank a well not many yards from where a farmer had 
a beautiful well in his orchard. The farmer feared very much for 
the result, but though Mr. Sommerville sank the well he found no 
water, and that adjoining was not affected in the slightest degree. 
When Professor Boyd Dawkins visited the late boring he expected 
that they would find much more water than was obtained in the 
Sandstone. He thought they were all very much indebted to 
Mr. Winwood and also to Mr. Sommerville ; the observations in 
the Paper had proved most interesting and would be a valuable 
addition to their proceedings. 
The Discoveries at Monkswood.—The second Paper was on the 
recent discoveries at Monkswood. Mr. Winwood described the 
geological features of the district in which the excavations were 
being carried on for the new reservoir, and said there were many 
points of peculiar interest worthy of record. In the first place, 
the Great Oolite on the Plateau was quite different in thickness 
and character from that on the other side of the valley at 
Monkton Farley or Combe Down. All the workable Freestone 
Beds were absent at Hunterwick, and only what was called the 
“ Bastard Freestone” present, used for rough work, walling, &c. 
He then attempted to explain the reason for this variation. 
Then, again, the Great Oolite Beds had been brought down more 
than 200 feet by a landslip (not of yesterday by any means) over 
the Fuller’s Earth and pitched down at a steep dip to S.E. below 
the Inferior Oolite Beds, a most abnormal position. Evidence of 
disturbances were abundant ; it was probably one of those which 
had dammed up the valley near Fry’s Farm, so that in past days 
a lake had existed, in process of time by the growth of aquatic 
plants, this had gradually turned into a morass. Evidence of 
this was seen in the peaty deposit, 17ft. thick, excavated for the 
“toes” of the puddle trench. Stumps of trees, land and fresh 
water shells were found in it, and at the base, resting upon the 
old bottom of Lias Clay, the remains of more than one extinct ox, 
the Urus or Bos primigenius. Further up the valley, and just 
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