374 



REPORT 1887. 



Cheshire. 



Collected hy Mr. De Rxincs, from Mr. A. Strahan, F.G.S. 



1. The Elms, Capenhtu-st, Cheshire, la. About 1875. 2. 100. 3. 74 feet; 

 diameter 10 feet. 217 feet 6 inches to bottom of borehole, ^a. Normal level of 

 water, 64 feet 6 inches from surface. 8. Highly contaminated with sewage. 9. ? any 

 drift. Bunter pebble beds, with a bed of marl, 6 feet thick, at 180-186 feet from 

 surface. 



Collected from Mr. A. Timmins, C.E., Bridgwater IronworTcs, Chapel Lane 

 Boring, near Prescot. 



Water rose to the surface. 



Ft. In. 



Red ' hackly ' sandstone 54 



Eed marl 41 



Eed sandstone 19 



Eed marl 11 



Light red sandstone 35 



Eed marl 2 



Light red sandstone 33 



Fine red sandstone 20 



Coarse red sandstone 96 5 



311 5 



The beds closely resemble those obtained in the lower portion of the 

 Bootle boring, and those from the Warrington Waterworks or Winwick. 

 The Winwick boring details are as follows : — 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



Fine white sand 31 7 



Fine-grained sandstone 97 5 



Coarse, compact sandstone, with millet seed grain, 



and bed of red and grey marl . . . . 43 



Shaly marl 10 



Fine-grained millet seed, grained sandstone . . 19 



Hard rag 11 



Sandy marl 2 



Calcareous sandstone 12 



Marl 22 



Large-grained sandstone 18 



Marl 6 



Soft white sand 22 



Soft brown sand 31 



Eed sandstone 11 



Mottled grey marl 11 0^ 



Dark mottled marl 



Marl 



Indurated marl . 



Grey marl and sand shale . 



Hard shaly marl 



390 Hard red marl . 



Limestone .... 



31 



129 

 172 



201 

 212 



226 

 253 



271 



330 

 341 



-Coal-measures 



'. I27 



6 

 5 



(+V 



Ft. In. 

 ^49 



Lancashire. 

 Manchester Wells. Drawn up hy Mr. De Range. 

 Professor Hull surveyed the Manchester district in 1863, and found 

 at that time 60 or 70 wells, yielding not less than 6 million gallons per 

 day from the pebble beds of the New Red Sandstone, and the Lower 

 Permian Sandstone of Manchester and Salford. He states that the 

 collecting area is now more than 7 square miles, covered with houses 



