ON THE CIRCULATION OF UNDERGROUND WATER?. 



413 



(Account of boring for water.) 



Boston, Market Place : — 



MS. in Geological Society's Library : — 



Ft. 



Light blue clay ...; 36 



Sand and gravel 1 



Light blue clay 10 



Rag stone, with salt springs 



Dark blue clay 26 



Light-coloured stone 



Dark blue clay 38 



Bright-coloured stone 



Gravel, with salt springs 



Dark clay 59 



Chalkey clay, with pebbles and flints 



Dark clay, with a bed of shells (? about 35 ft. "] 



down and about 6 ft. thick) )-168 



Dark clay J 



Chalky (?6in.) 1 



Dark earth, with chalk and flints [-128 



Beds of do. J 



Rag stone 1 



Dark silt, with chalk and gravel, no spring — 



ID. 





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 6 



472 4 



Sutton, Lincolnshire : — 



Feet 



Clay 16 



Moor or peat 4 



Soft moor, with shells and silt 20 



Marly clay 1 



Chalkv rock 2 



Clay " 93 



Gravel and water (not bottomed) — 



136 



Doncaster boring for water supply. Failed in obtaining water supply. 

 Letter from W. Sheardown, 1867, to Mr. Hunt, Mining Record Office. 



Ft. in. 



Warp 4 



Blue clay 14 



Quicksand 2 



Gravel 2 



Bedrock 90 



Red clay 36 



Limestone ..' 4 



Red clay 1 4 



Limestone 8 



Red clay 1 5 



Limestone 1| 



Red clay 6' 



Limestone 4i 



Red shale 2 3~ 



Limestone 1£ 



Shale limestone 6 



Bore small and rods broke, and could not be raised. 



Ft. in. 



Blue Clay 3 



Limestone 48 



Blue clay 6 7 



Red clay and sulphate of 



lime 42 



Hexthorpe limestone 210 



Blue shot 8 



Firclay 18 



Coal smut 18 



Grit 9 



Shalyclay 84 



Grit 4 6 



Shaly clay, and grit 



beds 244 6 



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