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BURTON WATERS—DRINKING AND BREWING. 15 
line of the river Trent they attain a thickness of from 20 
to.35 feet below it...... they are remarkably free from 
organic matter.” In reference to this freedom from organic 
matter he goes on to point out the fact of there being 
large tracts of peaty matter indicating old river courses, 
and he gives a map shewing their positions so far as he 
was able to estimate them. I must here note that these old 
river courses are more or iess approximate, and it does 
not do to conclude that the boundaries indicated by Molyneux 
are definitely proved at more than a few points. In the 
recent excavations for the deep sewers, these peat beds 
were cut through in several places, Horninglow Street by the 
L. & N.W. Railway, and Guild Street at Bass & Co’s. Crossing. 
It is to be hoped that the Borough Surveyor has kept a 
record of these cuttings, so that the underground survey 
of the town, if I may so call it, may be more accurately 
recorded. In this book of Molyneux’s you will find some 
very interesting geological data which are of the greatest 
value to any one when considering this question of the 
water bearing beds of the town, especially if taken in 
conjunction with the work done by Mr. Horace Brown and 
put before us in his ‘ Notes on the Geology of the District,” 
together with the recent evidence obtained by the deep 
bore holes made into the Lower Keuper and Bunter Con- 
glomerate, of which I shall have to speak later on. 
Further to quote from Molyneux, who you must remember 
was writing in 1869, ‘All the old wells of Burton are sunk 
in ordinary valley gravels.” ‘‘Until the year 1856 none of 
these wells exceeded 20 feet deep.” ‘In that year however, 
by the assistance of powerful pumping machinery, a well 
was carried to the depth of 24 feet on the premises of 
Messrs. Ind, Coope & Co., Station Street, and since that 
time it has been customary to deepen the old, and carry all 
new wells connected with the breweries completely through 
the gravels to the underlying Keuper beds.” 
