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The following short paper was written and read by J. H. Taunton 
at the request of the Club, on the occasion of their visit to the 
Bozwell Springs, near South Cerney, on 20th July, 1886. 
Whether North Cerney and South Cerney take their names 
from an old idea that the waters lost from the river Churn at 
or near the first-named place (assuming an underground channel 
for a distance of about eight miles, with a fall of 150 ft.) 
largely re-appear in the stream at the last-named place, I 
cannot say, but undoubtedly such is the fact. 
In the paper that I have recently had the pleasure of 
reading to the Cotteswold Club, being Notes on Cotteswold 
Hydrology, &c., I stated that the water referred to as lost from 
this stream in summer was ordinarily 276 cu. ft. per minute, 
equal to 2,403,000 gallons per diem, and that in a time of 
drought, in 1864, from a number of gaugings then made, I 
found these Boxwell Springs, in the withey bed alone, yielding 
an average of 1,115,280 gallons per diem, being 124 cubic ft. 
per minute nearly. 
To-day we find their flow to be 115 cubic ft. per minute, or 
1,035,000 gallons per diem, with some leakage at the Gauge- 
Board. 
Fortunately we have analyses of many springs in the Churn 
valley given in the sixth Report of the Commissioners for 
Preventing the Pollution of Rivers, from which I extract the 
following particulars :— 
Total P 
Temp. . Organic 
Faht. |; age 21 so eats\Hardness| REMARKS 
Seven Springs above Cubberley| 50°36 | 22°60 | 021 16°9 pile 
Cowley Springs... eee ...| 50°00 | 24:32 032 19°4 ditto 
Boxwell Springs eG ...| 51°44 33°86 068 26°7 ditto 
Springs at Chalford ... ...| 53°00 | 28°86 102 24°5 ditto 
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