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7 feet G inches diameter, is down to 110 feet, and from it a tunnel about 

 6 feet high, to the other well. From the larger well a 20-inch bore-hole is 

 carried down to 212 feet 6 inches from the surface. From the smaller 

 well another 20-inch bore-hole is carrieddown to 210 feet from the surface, 

 and with a 1 2-inch diameter to a further distance, in all 242 feet 6 inches 

 from the surface. 



The beds passed through by the wells consist of brown soft sandstone, 

 with bands of white sandstone, hard rag, and marl partings. The bore- 

 holes pass through hard red, white sandstone, with red marl partings, the 

 last bed bored through being soft marl, with streaks of hard, 10 feet in 

 thickness. 



Borings in the Trias, on the north and south banks of the Tees, col- 

 lected by C. E. De Ranee, F.G.S. 



The Triassic sandstones seen in the banks of the Tees, in the direction 

 of Stockton, dip to the S.E., and the dip obtains in the Middlesboro' salt 

 area, as the salt deposit was met with at a shallower level at Messrs. Bell's 

 boring, north of that of Messrs. Bolckow & Vaughans. Still fui-ther north 

 there is a local roll on the coast near Greatham, close to which there is a 

 boring, 1^ miles W. of Seaton Carew, 529 feet deep. 



A bore-hole was put down in 1828 by Mr. Fletcher, at Oughton, 

 about a mile north of Greatham, and two west of Seaton Carew. Details 

 given by Mr. Peacock, C.B., ' Trans. Cleveland L. and P. Soc.,' 1880 :— 



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 Soil . . . . \ 10 



Gravel, with water . 11 



Blue clay, very strong . 27 

 Sand, with a little water 1 8 



Blue clay, very strong . 8 6 



Red sand ... 36 



Sandy clay ... 52 



Red sand ... 1 82 



Blue clay . . . ) 136 3 10 



Sandy clay ... 16 



Sand, with a little water 8 



Clay, very strong, pebbles 24 

 Grey freestone . . 2 



Grey sand ... 42 



Clay, very strong . . 19 



Clay brown, very fair . J 9 1 



Brown freestone 5 



Grey metal 7 5 



Brown post, with girdles 3 



Red stone 12 7 



"White post, very strong, metal partings . . .54 



Grey metal 12 



Red freestone 4 1 



White post 3 2 



Red freestone 15 



Post girdles 9 



Red freestone 22 10 



Blue metal 3 6 



Red freestone 116 



Blue metal 2 



Red freestone, post 6 



White post girdles . . . . . . . .06 



Blue metal . 16 



