MEMOIRS 



OP THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



On the Geological Structure of the Country near AdeNj with 



REFERENCE TO THE PRACTICABILITY OF SINKING ArTESIAN WbLLSj 



hy F. R. Mallet, f. g. s., Geological Survey of India. 



The Government of India having* represented to the Superintendent 

 of the Geological Survey, the advisability of having an examination of 

 the country between Aden and the hills to the north made by an officer 

 of the Survey, with a view to determine the practicability or otherwise 

 of an Artesian well for the supply of Aden with water, I received orders 

 to stop there on my way out from England and make such investigation. 

 In pursuance therefore of my instructions I landed on Saturday, the 19th 

 November, and reported my arrival to General Sir Edward Russell, the 

 Political Resident, by whom every facility was at once furnished to me for 

 cavrjang out the object I had in view. On the 21st and 22nd I made 

 some examination of Aden itself, and on the 23rd marched northward 

 into the interior to Majhafa where the Aden troop under Captain Stevens 

 was encamped. After having examined the country between Shaik 

 Othman and Majhafa, I wished to enter the hills to the north ; but on 

 account of the temporarily disturbed state of the district, it was not con- 

 sidered safe by the Resident for me to do so, and I was obliged to content 

 myself with a rapid march to the foot of them and return in the same 

 day, accompanied by Lieutenant Owen of the Aden troop and an escort 

 of Sowars and Arabs furnished by Captain Stevens. Subsequently, with 

 Lieutenant Owen and a few of the Arab levy, I marched to the east 

 north-east by Imad to Teran in the Abien territory, where we again 



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