ON THE CIRCULATION OF UNDERGROUND WATERS. 387 



Name and Member of Committee asking for information, James 

 Plant. 



Name of Individnal or Company applied to : — 



Ellistown Colliery, Bagworth, Leicestershire. 



1. Shafts at colliery. 2. 500 ft. 3. 760 ft. ; 13 ft. diameter. 5. 60,000 gallons 

 per hour. 



Feet. 



9. Red marls 200 



Waterstones and Bunter conglomerate... 120 

 Coal measures 440 



760 

 12. Large east and west fault. 13. None. 14. None. 15. None. 



Rev. P. Hutton, Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire. 



1. Quadrangle of Ratcliffe College. 2. 312 ft. 3. 156 ft. ; diameter 6 ft. ; 

 no bore-hole. 4. Before 8 ft. ; after 4 ft. ; 6 hours. 5. 240 gallons per hour ; 

 5 hours' continuous pumping will not exhaust it. 6. Not known to vary, to both 

 questions. 7. Not known to vary ; above the bed of the river Wreake 8 ft. ; bed 

 of ditto, 170 ft. above sea. 8. Carbonate of lime, with free carbonic acid gas ; de- 

 posits carbonate of lime on standing; hard. 9. Lower Lias and Upper Keuper 

 marls and sandstone. 10. No springs ; rain-water only. 11. Entirely kept out. 

 12. None known. 13. No; well wall quite dry. 14. N&ne known. 15. None 

 known. Well is lined throughout with brickwork ; no chamber at bottom ; the 

 supply is constant through the year. 



Major Campbell, R.E., New Barracks, Glen Parva, Leicestershire. 



1. Barrack yard. 2. About 300 ft. 3. Shaft 100 ft. deep ; 6 ft. diameter, 

 Uned bricks, but not cemented. 4. Bore-hole at bottom of well, 150 ft. ; 6 in. 

 diameter. 5. Very little water, and that is thought to be surface drainage. 8. 

 Hard, what there is. 



Feet. 



9. Drift 10 



Lower has with thin limestone 40 



Rtuetic 20 



Chocolate marls 30 



Red marls, chocolate colour 150 



Total 260. 



Shaft and boring. 

 11. Into well through want of cemented brickwork. 



F. Bates & Sons, Brewers, New Brewery, Humberstone Road, Leicester. 



1. Yard of brewery. 2. 220 ft. 3. 62 ft. ; 6 ft. diameter ; lined with bricks, 

 but not cemented. 4. 30 ft. ; falls to 8 ft. by continuous pumping. 5. Fills up 

 quickly after pumping. 6. Not known to vary during the seasons ; no variation. 

 7. No. 8. Carbonate of lime, sulphate of lime (100 grains to gallon), chloride of 

 sodium, sulphate of magnesia. 9. Drift 8 ft. ; Upper Keuper marls 52 ft. 10. 

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



Gimson & Co., Engineers " New Works," Humberstone Road, Leicester. 



1. Yard of works. 2. 212 ft. 3. Well 64 ft. ; 6 ft. diameter, lined bricks, but 

 no cement. 4. 30 ft. ; reduced to 8 ft. by continuous pumping. 6. Not known. 

 7. No. 8. Hard ; carbonate of lime and sulphate of lime. 9. Drift 6 ft. ; Upper 

 Keuper marls 58 ft. 10. Yes. 11. No. 12. None known. 13. No. 14. No. 

 15. No. 



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