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Discusstoy. 
The Rev. J. E. Tentson- Woops asked if any po was kept 
of the character of the strata nie through in the 
r. Drxon said that as the borings were done wih the 
ordinary boring tools the rock was all” crushed, and therefore 
samples would not be of so much value as by the improved 
methods, and he did not know whether ial had been kept 
y Mr. Poolman 
r. Poon said that when he arrived the boring was dow 
100 feet and no samples had been kept, but from that depth te 
had samples in his possession. At 100 feet the rod passed 
through a bed of soft sand, and they fully expected to obtain 
water there, but did not. At the greater depth the rock had 
much the appearance ae Bath-bric 
Mr. Henry had examined some of the ae ge brought up 
at the Newington Perry and found them to be carboniferous 
sandstone. He did not like to hear of so much total solids in 
the brewers’ wells or ae idea of drinking beer “ewm grano salis. 
he considered it probable that springs rose at Botan 
Mr. Drxon said gs the fault of all the water obtained here 
for Seewinny was eed: id not ee enough solid matter in 
solution. e water a Burton-on-Trent contained about 78 
a of total solids per gallon, ind | the waters used for brewing 
the best beers in England varied from 60 to 80 grains per gallon 
of total solids. 
e Rey. J. E. Tentson-Woops said he had seen carbon- 
with solids as to be unfit for drinking purpos 
however not universal, as the town of Rut exe in Scotland, 
Bobiaty was simply a none ry or were there springs there. . 
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