ON THE CIRCULATION OF UNDERGROUND WATERS. 



217 



300 Total depth bored 



Collected by Mr. C. E. De Ranee. 



From Mr. A. Timmins, Stud. Inst. C.E., Runcorn. 



1. Leyland Local Trial Boring for Water, Clayton-le-Woods. 



3, 5 feet well to 



11 inch boring to . 



10 



3a. None. 4. 14^ feet from surface. 

 Brown, county analyst, Jan. 28, 1882. 



4a. Same. 



la. Dec. 1881. 



64 feet 

 120 feet 

 150i feet 



Made by Dr. Campbell 



Total solid matter 



Organic carbon 



Organic nitrogen (Dr. Frankland's method) 

 Ammonia ....... 



Ammonia for organic matter 



Nitrates and nitrites .... 



Total combined nitrogen . . . • . 



Combined chlorine 



Hardness 24, of which 20'1 was temporary. 



Surface soil 

 Sandy gravel 

 Boulder clay 

 Ferruginous earth 

 Fine light sand . 

 Coarse gravel 

 Micaceous clay . 

 Purple shale 

 Ferruginous sandstone 

 Uniform sandstone 

 Brown mould 

 Purple shale 

 Purple sandstone 

 Bronze shale 

 Purple shale 



Parts per 100,000 

 37-4 

 •093 

 •019 

 •015 

 •008 

 •046 

 •078 

 302 



ft. 

 3 



13 



30 

 1 

 2 

 5 

 5 

 1 

 3 



27 

 5 



19 



13 

 3 



20 



m. 



























































6 



150 6 



Appendix II. — Triassic Wells. 



Collected by Mr. Thos. S. Stooke, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. 

 From Mr. Edwin Parry, Engineer to Messrs. Marshall, the proprietors 

 of the said well. October 19, 1881. 



1. In the mill-yard belonging to Messrs. Marshall, Shrewsbury, la. 1837. No. 

 2. About 240 feet. 3. 60 feet ; from the bottom of the well are two bore-holes 50 

 yards deep, through \yhich the whole supply comes, 9 in. diam. 3a. The well enters 



