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Coarse quartzose sand, brilliant and dull 
8-00 
2700 
.At 22 00, 1st gush. 
grains, white to yellowish-red, lower 
down mica spangles. 
10 
D 
Black clay 
6-00 
33'00 
At 33, 2nd gush. 
11 
E 
Grey sand of extreme fineness, fiuld and 
1-00 
3-l.'00 
even viscous. 
Water lowers as boring 
pirooeeds. 
12 
P 
Black clay, plastic, compact, with some 
2-00 
3600 
rare black and schistose pebbles. 
13 
G 
Silioions sand, coarse-grained stained 
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37 00 
At 36'50, a rise. 
with a little clay. 
14 \ 
Impermeable bed of clay, less black than 
8 00 
45'00 
the previous ones : containing some 
grains of calcareous concretions (1 to 
5 millimeters cube) and others a little 
larger. Sometimes a little sand, mixed 
or in thin seams. 
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Same clay, with rounded pebbles, size of 
I'OO 
46'00 
At 4fi, 3rd gush, but a 
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peas, others a little larger, black and 
white. 
fall below' soil. 
16\ 
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Coarse sand, with pebbles of quartz 
0'50 
46-50 
At 4G'50, water stojis at 30 
centimeters abov.e soil. 
17 
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Coarse sand, pebbles rarer, mixed with 
0-50 
47'00 
fine grey fluid sand like that at 33 
meters. Lower in the bed pebbles still 
more rare, grains of sand very large 
(2-3 mm. cube) of byaline quartz, small 
debris of kaolin. 
18 
Coarse sand, smaller grains and rolled 
I'OO 
4800 
pebbles. 
19 
River sand a iittle mixed with fine sand 
200 
5000 
At 49'90, water stays at 
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like sea-.sand, still some fragments of 
50 centimeters, when all 
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1 
white clay s then the sands alternately 
fine and coarse. (Here were noticed 
■ some particles of blackish calcined clay 
; and some fragments resemhiing country 
brick, but Mi*. Poulaiu hesitated at 
at once there is a 4tli 
gush. Eventually water 
lowers rapidly. 
such recognition until some small 
sherds of pottery appeared; even then 
j be admits that these may have fallen 
from above). 
20 
^ Coarse sand containing pellets of black 
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51 00 
clay as large as picas ; sand fine and 
coarse-grained, the two sands being 
sometimes mixed, soiled with a little 
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1 black slushy clay. 
