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134 REPORT — 1875. 



Mr. E. Barham, Bath, Bridgwater. 

 1. At Wembdon. 2. 60 feet. 3. 30 feet. 4. Plentiful supplj; except in very 

 dry summers. 5. Cauuot state precise quantity. 6. It is level in the summer ; 

 three or four years ago there was a partial failure of water in August or September. 

 7. No immediate eifect is produced by rain, however heavy. The bottom of the well 

 is higher than any other stream in the neighbourhood. I have no analysis of the 

 water ; it is very clear to look at and very hard ; it " rocks " kettles and sometimes 

 when boiling looks " milky." 9. The well is entirely situate in the red sandstone, 

 which at the point in question is a band of conglomerate rock, the imbedded rock 

 being, I should think, portions of the Quantock formation. 10. There are no surface- 

 springs in the immediate neighboiu-hood. 12. There is a fault running from near 

 the well past Connington to Charlwick. 13. No. 14. No. 15. No. 



The Rev. M. Drummond, Wookey Vicarage, near Wells. 

 1. West of Wells, Somerset. 2. About 70 feet. 3. 33 feet. 4. 3-feet level 

 y does not alter under ordinary usage. 6. Varies from 3 feet in driest to 12 feet in 

 wettest weather, but no diminution in the supply. 7. No, probably about level 

 with the river Axe. 8. No analysis 5 always clear. 



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9. Redmai-l 30 



Loam 3 



Redstone. 



/A large body of water finds its way, by means of smaller holes and fissures in the 

 K > Carboniferous limestone of the Mendip Hills, to the lower levels. Thus a spring 

 rises in the Bishop's Palace Garden at Wells which brings coal with it, some of 

 which I have ; and a large stream emerges from imder the Carboniferous limestone 

 at Cheddar. 10. No drift; all the neighbourhood full of land-springs. 11. Yes. 

 13, No. 14. No. 15. No. 



Midland CoTTNirEs. 



Name of Member of Committee aslcing for information, Mr. James Plant, 

 F.G.S. 



Name of Individual or Company applied to : — 



Messrs. Fielding & Co. 

 1. Leicester. 2. 210 feet, mean tide Liverpool. 3. 75 feet, 8 ft. diameter ; no bore- 

 hole. 4. 35 feet, in working reduced to 10 feet and restored in 10 hours. 5. 250 to 

 300 thousand gallons. 6. Not observed ; some 10 feet. 7. Not seen; well when full 

 about same level as water in river Soar. 8. Sulphate and carbonate of lime ; pro- 

 portions not known. 



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9. Soil 2-6 (there are two wells). 



Drift (clay and sand) 10 



Red marl : 30 



*Upper Keuper sandstone 29 



75 

 10. Yes. 11. Yes. 12. None known. 13. No. 14. None known. 15. No. 



Messrs. Hodges and Sons. 



1. Leicester. 2. 206 ft. above mean tide Liverpool. 3. 90 ft., 9 ft. diameter, bottom 



12 feet diameter ; heading driven into sandstone to increase supply. 4. 50 feet ; 



emptied during ten hoiu-s, restored in 14 hours. 5. No estimate. 6. Not observed 



(only sunk 5 years). 7. Not observed, about same level as riverf. 8. Sulphate 



* Thin " wayboards " of red and grey marl and red, white, and grey sandstone alternating 

 and full of •' i-ipple-marks ;" beds 4 to 6 inches. 



t The river Soar, near the town, runs through the " Upper Keuper sandstone" beds, 

 cutting them down to the red marl below ; the town of Leicester is partly built on these 

 upper sandstone beds, but drift lies over all. 



