308 



EEPORT — 1891. 



Macclesfield County Asyhim, 1873-5. 



(Surface level 538 feet above Ordnance Datum.) 



Well. 

 Ft. in. 

 36 Brick clay, three or four thin beds of quicksand . 



Boeing. 



Quicksands, shells, boulders 



Soft brick clay 



Very stiff brown and blue boulder clay 



Brick clay 



Brown sand, pebbles, shell fragments 



Loam 



Loose running sand 



Hard stiff brown and blue boulder clay 



A''ery sharp running sand 



Stiff c'iaj, brown boulder clay pebble 



Loamy gravel .... 



Very tough boulder clay 



Sand and fine gTavel, shells 



Brown sand ..... 



Gravel, erratic and local ro'-ks 



Upper red mottled sandstone 



Water level, 174 feet from tte sm-race, or 3G4 feet above O.D. The 

 rock-surface was .318 feet above O.D. The bottom of the piim2>barrel 

 is 207 feet below the surface. 



Messrs. Henry Evans ami Co., Star JSreivery, Maccle.''field. 

 Carried out by Messrs. Mather and Piatt, Salford Ironworks. 



Ft. in. 



134 Drift . 



203 Sandstone 



Ft. in. 

 134 

 169 



Wrought-iron tubes to top of rock, 10 inches diameter. 



Macclesfield Breivery. 

 Well. 



Ft. in. 



33 Sand and gravel 



Boeing. 



37 Sand, fine .... 



Brick clay .... 



Boulder clay .... 



Gravel (boulders and pebbles) 



Fine gravel, shell fragments 



Gravel and clay 



Fine sand 



Coarse gravel 



Clay and gravel 



Brick clay 



Sandy clay shells 



Boulder clay, large boulders 

 138 Gravelly clay 



Trias, red sandstone 



(X) 



"Water plentiful. 



