PAiiT^a.] 
King: on ihe Artesian Wells at Pondicherry. 
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It is to be noted that the discharge is much over that of the Savana 
Better diseliai'ge than appears to be in proportion with the capa- 
in the Savana well. cities of the tubes, qualified by the different depths and 
the more compressed strata in the deeper boring. The discharge powers of 
the two tubes are as 44 to 31: the actual discharges being as 99’6 to 44. 
The following table of the strata passed through in this boring has been sent 
to me by Mr. Poulain ;— 
Tahle 2.—The Oogalem Boring. 
No. of bed according 
to Mr. Poulain. 
1 Arbitrary groupini? 
1 of Mr. King. 
1 
Beds. 
Thickness of beds 
in meters. 
Progressive dhiek- 
ness in meters. 
Remarks. 
1 
Vegetable mould 
060 
0-60 
2\ 
f 
Fine siind with clay 
2-35 
2-95 
sT 
A ^ 
Coarse sand with pebbles, and some clay 
near the bottom. 
15'18 
18-13 
Rising sheet to 1 meter 
below surface. 
4J 
( 
Pebbles with sand, and some clay 
0'60 
18-73 
5 
B 
Dark clay with fine sand ... 
2-50 
21-23 
6 
C 
Dark and hard clay 
14-47 
35-70 
Gushing water slicet. 
7 
U 
Fine sand and pebbles 
... 
The water-level in the ordinary wells is between 6 56 and 9'67 feet below 
surface soil, which is 6 feet above mean sea-le'vel. 
An arbitrary grouping of the beds may be put as follows :— 
Groups of beds. 
Feet. 
Feet. 
1-96 
1-96 
A.—Sands and pebbly beds with clay 
59-46 
61-42 
B.—^Dark clay with flue sand 
8-20 
69-62 
47-46 
117-08 
The Boeing at the Jardin d’ Acclimatation. 
The next well in order of date is that in the Jardin d’ Acclimatation, 
situated between Savana and Oopallem, immediately on 
Position. south-west edge of the town, at about 1,450 yards 
from the seashore, 160 yards south of the parallel of the Savana well, and 
170 yards from the left bank of the Edoupar. 
