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SECTION OF A WELL-BORE AT MULGUNDAWA,. 
NEAR WELLINGTON, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
By Proressor RALPH TATE. 
[Read September 3, 1900.] 
In the latter part of 1899 Dr. RE AN on behalf of Mr. 
Kni ight, of Mulgundawa, handed me some siftings of certain 
opinion as to the probability of reaching water at no inconsider- 
able depth, if a second venture should be decided o 
ll No. 1 was sunk to a depth of 214 feet. At 213 feet a 
shell-bed, rich in fossils, was penetrated. The fosssils are mainly 
identical with those of the chief fossil-bed in the Kent Town 
exceed 20 or 30 feet. It is situated about 40 miles 
Ki-Ki, which yielded water at 312 feet below ‚sea-level. * Te 
were rising in their eni ev T assigned a less depth to- 
reach Pens than obtained a 
Bore No. 2 was sunk inda to di site of No. 1, and in a letter, 
dated fly 14, 1900, Mr. John S. Knight advises that “At a 
depth of 292 feet we struck water, which rose to, and is still 
the feasibility of an economic. application of a detailed know- 
ledge of the actual similitudes of fossiliferous horizons. An 
inerease of like results may lead to the determination of the 
actual source of water supply contained in the basal beds of the- 
Eocene in the vast area of country extending eastward from the 
* See Clark, Trans. Roy Soc., S. Aust, XX., 1896, p. 112. 
