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MEETINGS. 



semi-decomposed gneiss. Quartz veins and gneiss, with a 

 large proportion of quartz, were met with, but otherwise there 

 was nothing unexpected in this well. The gneiss is compact 

 and of a red. colour, its crystals are small. In connection with 

 this well it may be mentioned that the well in Union Street 

 is also 80 feet deep. 



2. — On Mr. Bougourd's property at " Gipps Land" 



St. Sampson's. 



This well is situate nearly halfway between " Spur Point " 

 and " Les Monts " quarry, and its section shows that the land 

 in which it has been cut is in part the result of the deposition 

 of sand, clay and rubble from the higher levels on the west. 

 Solid rock was found at a depth of 19 J feet, and occurred in 

 massive pieces with crevices, four of which gave water. 



The following is a section of the well : — 



West side. 



Good earth 



*Souille 



Yellow clay with an- 

 gular stones 



Blue clay 



Yellow clay 



Eock 



Depth. 



] -2 feet. 



1 foot 3 in. 



8 feet. 



4 ft. thinning 

 to nothing. 



2 feet. 



East side. 



Loamy earth 



White clay 



Yellow clay, with 

 angular stones ... 



Yellow clay 



do. do 



Rock 



Progressive 

 depth. 



2 feet. 



3 feet. 



13 feet. 



17 feet. 



19 feet. 

 19^ feet. 



This well section seems to point to the fact that the 

 angular stones result from the decay of the rock, and that 

 they are not far from their original position. The yellow clay 

 is no doubt the result of the decay carried to a further stage. 

 The blue clay, however, thinned out to nothing on the east 

 side, thus existed, in the section as a wedge as here drawn. 



West. 



Blue Clay, 

 4 feet. 



Well. 



East. 



Yellow 

 Clay. 



*Souille, a local term used by well-diggers, 

 layer was little but an earthy clay. 



In the present instance the 



