ON THE CIRCULATION OF UNDERGROUND -WATERS. 



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Information froin Messrs. Jukes-Browne and Daltoit, of the Geological 



Survey. 



ScotJiern Grange 'Well. 



Boulder clay 

 Gravel with water 



Foet. 

 . 7 

 .( + ) 



Langtuorth Farm, ^ mile 8.W. of Station. 



Feet. 



Bonlder clay i , on 



,-, f 1 1 r sunk oO 



Oxford clay ) 



Ditto, bored 30 



60 Kellaway's rock i . . •( + ) 



The water rises to the surface. 



Sudbrook Holme. Bering hy Messrs. Legrand and Sutcliff. 



Water rises to level of top of the house 



10 hours 



Kellaway's 

 beds 



Cornbrash 



Great 

 oolitic clay 



Great 

 oolite 



Upper 

 estuarian 



Lincolnshire "f 

 limestone J 



Soil 

 Stone 

 Grey sand 

 Blue clay 

 Stone 

 Green clay 

 Dark clay 

 Stone 

 Clay . 

 Shell rock 

 Green clay 

 Stone 

 Clay . 



Stone 



yield, 7,000 gallons per day of 



Ft. in. 



2 



5 



13 



11 6 

 14 



14 6 

 3 8 

 5 4 



15 



5 6 



Ft. in. 



2 



7 



20 



27 



31 6 



43 



57 



61 



62 

 76 6 

 80 2 

 85 6 



100 6 



107 



HORNCASTLE. 



In the shafts and borings made at Kirkstead and Woodhall, near 

 Horncastle, in 1819, in a futile search for coal, no water appears to have 

 been met with, except the saline spring, now known as Woodhall Spa, 

 which occurred at a depth of 530 feet, and is believed by Mr. Jukes- 

 Browne, of the Geological Survey, to have issued from the inferior oolite. 

 He thinks it probable that the beds passed through were as follows : — 



Feet. 

 10 

 .360 



500 



640 



1020 



Gravel and boulder clay . . • 



Kimeridge and Oxford clays . • 



Kellaway rock, clays, cornbrash i 

 Great oolite, upper estuarines i 

 Lincolnshire oolite and Northampton sands 

 Lias (upper, middle and lower) 



Feet. 

 . 10 

 . 350 



. 110 



. 140 



. 380 



The temperature of the water in 1883 was 59-6 F., and the water 

 contained, in 1863, in grains per gallon : — 



