68 VREDENBURG : RECENT ARTESIAN EXPERIMENTS IN INDIA, 

 No. 17. Bulloch Brothers & Co. Section — 



©— 30 ft. brownish silt. 

 3°— 43 11 grey silt. 



43— 62 ft. brick redclayey matter (soft laterite?). 



62 — 68 „ fine buff sand. 



68 — 75 „ fine pale greyish sand. 



75 — no ,, yellow sand. 

 J 10 — 130 „ clean sharp sand. 

 130-I4S „ grit. 



148— 161 ,, yellowish sharp sand. 

 161 — 165 ,, fine brown sand. 

 165 — 171 „ coarse sand. 

 171 — 180 „ coarse sub-angular grit. 

 180 — 185 ,, gravel up to an inch in diameter. 



No. 18. Heatherington Gray & Co. 



One well of 250 ft. Water bad ; no record. 

 No. 19. Mohr Brothers & Co. Section— 



o — ft. fine grey silt. 

 — 196 ,, grey silt mixed with grains of reddish sand. 



196 — ft. grey sand with some small pebbles. 



— 210 ,, clean yellow sand. 

 210 — 215 „ coarse sand. 

 2, 5™ 11 small gravel. 



— 224 „ coarse grit. 

 224—230 „ fine grit and coarse sand. 

 230 — 242 „ sub-angular gravel ranging to 5 inch. 



An experimental well was sunk at Akyab in 1S89-1890. But it 

 „ . . .. . is difficult to make out how far the work 



Bonng at Akyab. 



proceeded through alluvium, or whether it en- 

 tered the underlying tertiary rocks. The locality was visited in 1897 

 by the late Mr. Grimes, who wrote the following particulars on this 

 subject: " In the years 18S9-90, at the Arracan Company's Upper 

 Mill, on the north side of the town of Akyab, a well was bored to 

 a depth of 421 feet, for the purpose of obtaining water, but without 

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