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WELL at THE R.A. Cottece Farm. 
We have some brief account of this well in our own trans- 
actions. In the annual address on Jan. 27, 1857 (Proceedings 
of Cotteswold Club, Vol. II.,) Professor Buckman, describing an 
excursion to the College Farm buildings, says :— 
“The Geologists examined the well-sinking through the Great Oolite 
into the Fuller’s Earth, a depth of 140ft. The whole of this shaft was 
carried through beds of a more or less porous oolite, without a break either 
lithological or paleontological, a circumstance which gave rise to some dis- 
cussion between Mr Hull, of the Ordnance Geological Survey, and the 
Secretary—the former gentleman considering a large portion of the shaft as 
representing the Forest Marble ; the latter considering it as wholly belonging 
to the Great Oolite, and contending that certain clay beds which occur higher 
in the series, where the true Bradford clay is absent, present a natural divi- 
sion, and one which can be carried out through a wide extent in this district. 
Ata later period of the meeting the Secretary presented a section of this 
well, with others of the neighbourhood, and read a paper on the geology of 
the water bearing beds about Cirencester.” 
It is very much to be regretted that no record appears to 
have been preserved of the paper here alluded to, or of any of 
the sections, for after careful search and enquiry I am unable 
to find any such. The depth mentioned, 140 ft., is somewhat 
greater than other evidence would have led one to expect; but 
we are ignorant of how far into the Fuller’s Earth the sinking 
was carried. 
Wet at FurtHer Barron. 
This well is about 120ft. deep. There is no record of the 
actual section, but most systematic records have been kept over 
a long series of years of the varying height of the water in the 
well. There can be no doubt, from these records, that it taps 
the Fuller’s Earth at about the same depth as the R A.C. Farm 
well. It has never been dry. 
WELL at THE Bacon Factory. 
A plentiful supply of water is here obtained at a depth of 
89 ft. The well itself is 73 ft. deep, and there is a further bore 
of 16ft. The height of the water was 11 ft. above the well 
floor three days ago. 
