310 REPORT— 189 i 



Mr. Dunlop and the Secretary by appointment at the well, and made a 

 careful examination of the section.' 



Underneath 2 feet of surface soil they found the materials composed 

 entirely of the typical boulder-clay of the district, full of stones, sub- 

 angular, and more or less striated, chiefly from the adjacent Coal 

 Measures, with a few red sandstones, conglomerates, and schists from the 

 West Highland border. Two grey sandstone boulders of considerable 

 size appeared on the sides of the well, one on the N.W. side and the other 

 nearly opposite on the S.E. side, at a depth of between 12 and 13 feet 

 from the surface. 



No trace of any shelly clay or of shells was found. 



Samples of all that could be obtained, viz. the boulder- clay, were 

 taken : — 



(1) From R depth of 14 feet to 14 feet 6 inches. 



(2) „ 14 feet G inches to 14 feet 11 inches. 



(3) „ 15 feet to 16 feet. 



On Monday, March 26, Mr. Home, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dunlop again 

 met at the well, and in their presence the examination was carried down 

 another 2 feet, making the greatest depth reached about 17^ feet fi'om the 

 surface. Samples were then taken : — 



(4) From a depth of 10 feet to 17 feet. 

 (.5 and 6) „ 15 feet to 16 feet. 



Portions of the whole were despatched to Mr. David Robertson for 

 examination, and also to the office of the Geological Survey in Edinburgh, 

 Mr. Robertson's report is subjoined. 



2. Boring Ojyerations Around the Well. 



The result of the excavation of the well being so far negative, the 

 Committee deemed it advisable, lest former operations had removed or 

 concealed the shelly clay from the sides of the well, to put down some 

 bores at A^arious points at a short distance around it. For this purpose 

 they employed Mr. James Pollock, whose services had been obtained in 

 their former investigations at Clava. Mr. Pollock was first instructed to 

 put down four bores at Aarious points around the well to a depth of about 

 17 feet. The position of these bores (Nos. 1 to 4) is shown in the 

 following diagram. 



The diameter of the well after the masonry had been removed was 

 4 feet 9 inches at the surface, and 4 feet 3 inches at a depth of 15 feet. 



The distances of the bores from the sides of the well were in each case 

 about 2^ feet. 



Owing to a large boulder, No. 4 bore had to be abandoned, and bores 

 4a and 4b weie put down first westward and then southward from No. 4 

 (see ' Borer's Journal '). 



After these bores had been put down and reported on by Mr. Pollock 

 it was suggested that, as a considerable space intervened between bores 

 Nos. 1 and 4, and again between Nos. 3 and 4, it was possible that a bed 

 of clay of some breadth might extend diagonally between these without 



' When the operations were in progress, the Chairman and Secretary examined 

 the title-deed conveying the small property from the late Mr. Russell's son to 

 the present owner, Mr. Lindsay, and obtained other evidence of the location of the 

 well. 



