and Phcenomena of the County of Suffolk. 375 



No. 24. — Well at the Greyhound Inn, Lavenham, 7^ miles W.N. W. of Had- 

 leigh. (Sept. 1827.) 



Feet. 



1. Diluvium — light-coloured yellow clay 14 



2. stiff blue clay, with many chalk stones 14 



3. dirty clay, and black sand-like garden mould 12 



4. clay, with chalk-stones and coal 30 



5. white and yellow sand, and gravel 6 



(Water instantly.) TotalTTT^ 



At 50 feet mephitic air, which put out candles and killed chickens ; and 

 at 76 feet, such a noise for four days as alarmed the workmen : the water rose 

 after it to 5 feet deep. 



Well at the parsonage, 45 feet blue clay, containing a layer of chalk-stones ; 

 at the Cock inn, 43 feet clay ; at the mill, 56 feet soil and clay. 



No. 25. — Section at Balingdon, near Sudbury. 



Feet. 



1. Diluvial clay, with chalk-stones \-ZQ 



2. Chalk 37 



Total.. 163 



No. 26.— Well at Clare, 6^ miles N.W. of Sudbury. 



Feet. 

 Diluvial clay 160 



Water instantly rose to within 7 feet of the surface. 

 Nos. 27 to 30.— Wells at 



Hartest (27). Cockfield (28). Bradfield (29). Chedburgh (30). 

 6 m. N.E. Clare. 5i m. E.N.E. Hartest. 1 J m. N. by W. Cockfield. 6 m. S.W. by S. Bury. 

 Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. 



Diluvium — whitish clay 3 — 11 8 



blue clay.. 300 126 100 28 



Plastic clay — red sand' 34 — 



Total., 303 1262 145 36 



' Not penetrated. ^ Water stands 30 feet deep; a second well at Cockfield gave 20 feet 

 white clay, 10 feet blue clay, with iron pyrites, and shells which crumbled to pieces. 



No. 31. Well at Chevington, 5 miles S.W. by W. from Bury. 



1. Diluvial white clay 10 



2. blue clay 15 



3. blue gravel 1 



4. blue clay 4 



5. chalk 1 



6. blue clay 3 



Feet. 



7. Diluvial chalk 1 



8. blue clay 2 



9. chalk 2 



10. blue clay 29 



11. blue clay, with Be- 

 lemnites, Gryphites, &c. 52 



Total.. 120 



