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Wet at OaxuEy VILLAS. 
This is from 80ft. to 90ft. deep, and affords a never-failing 
supply. Mr James Habgood, of Cricklade Street, Cirencester, 
to whom I am indebted for much valuable information on old 
wells, says this well was cut through solid rock. It has a high 
local reputation for purity on account of its great depth; but 
is “suspect”? from surface contamination. 
Karu Baruourst’s Trrat Borine at tHE Barton, 1872. 
This section is very fully described in Mr Taunton’s paper 
in the Hydrology of the Cotteswolds, and is reproduced in the 
accompanying illustrations. 
WELL At THE BEECHES. 
Mr W. Newcombe, builder, &c., of Cricklade Street, kindly 
informs me that this boring reached a total depth of 96 ft. 
From an examination of the triturated material of the boring, 
which Mr Newcombe allowed me to see, I am of opinion that 
the boring went through a greater thickness of Forest Marble 
Clays than any of the previously described borings, and finished 
still in the freestone of the Great Oolite. 
I have several other accounts of old deep well borings in 
the town and neighbourhood, but no specimens or particulars 
of the materials obtained in excavating them: their value as 
evidence is therefore but slight. 
GENERAL TESTIMONY OF THE WELLS. 
Taking these various wells and sections, the information 
they supply corroborates that of the neighbouring quarries, 
and, as a general summary, we may conclude that they indicate 
a thickness of Great Oolite of about 100 ft., overlying the im- 
pervious strata of the Fuller’s Earth, whence their water is 
obtained. 
We now come to the consideration of the sub-strata of the 
town itself. What rocks fill and form the floor of the valley ? 
If we suppose for a moment that the valley did not exist at all, 
