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No. 2 is 1000 feet from No. 1, and with the surface of the 
ground thirty feet higher; and the water was tapped at 186 
feet, and the boring proceeded until it reached 274 feet. 
No. 3 boring was undertaken at the suggestion of Mr 
Bateman, in the hope that a fault existed, which would enable 
a supply of water to be obtained much nearer to the existing 
reservoir at Witcombe. Ona reference to the map it will be 
seen itis below the escarpment, and at a lower level by 202 
feet than No. 2, and 214 below No. 4. 
Water was reached at 45 feet, but the boring was only 
continued 11 feet, as it was evident, although the sands were 
there, the sinking was not through beds im situ, but a mass of 
tumbled Oolite. ; 
No. 4 is at the edge of the escarpment, and is 630 feet from 
No. 2, and at an elevation of 12 feet higher, and 42 feet more 
than No. 1. 
The water was tapped at 190 feet, and at once rose 10 feet: 
its permanent level. The total boring was 300 feet. 
Mr Reap informs me that in plotting the above Sections to 
scale he found that a line drawn through the points in the 
several bore holes Nos. 1, 2 and 4, at which the water assumed 
a permanent height, was a continuous straight line, with a 
flatter gradient than that of the strata passed through; the 
water was therefore assumed to have a common source. 
It is interesting to compare the thickness of the several 
borings, until the sands were reached, with the Section I have 
made of the Birdlip escarpment. 
The beds passed through of the latter een 177 feet, 
and assuming I am right in adding six feet between No. 2 and 
3, would make 183 feet. 
Now water was reached at No. 1 bore-hole at 195 feet 
2? »” ” 2 ” 186 ” 
” ” ” 4 ” 190 ” 
and at the latter assumed a permanent level at 180 feet. 
Owing to the opposition to the scheme, and the Local 
Government Board being uncertain whether they had power to 
sanction so large an undertaking, the project, at least for a 
time, has been abandoned. 
