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These were followed by 42 feet of alternating beds of very hard light gray and red sand¬ 
stones, sometimes concretionary and calcareous, and of argillaceous reddish sands. Then 
by thick beds of red clay, with subordinate seams of micaceous red and light green sand¬ 
stones and of reddish argillaceous sands, to a further thickness of 74 feet; ending at a 
depth of 1802 feet in a hard micaceous light-coloured sandstone. 
“ The only spring of water met with beneath the Gault was in the thin sand and 
pebble bed, No. 40. A rise took place in the water-level of the well of 3 feet when this 
bed was first reached, but it was not maintained. 
“ The bore-hole, which commenced with a diameter of 12 inches, was first reduced to 
10, and then to 8 inches. It is tubed through the chalk, Gault, and the first 60 feet of 
the red beds, but the last portion of 128 feet is not yet tubed.” 
It is generally supposed that the Bed Sandstones thus unexpectedly 
brought up to the base of the Gault belong to the new Eed Sandstone 
beds, and that they may cover important carboniferous deposits beneath. 
It is difficult to understaud, unless they are dislocated by strong east 
and west faults, why they did not supply water to this Artesian boring, 
and serve as a water-bearing stratum, as well as the lower greensand 
beds could have done. Mr. Godwin Austen expressed the opinion, before 
this boring was effected, “ that the axis of the Ardennes was prolonged 
under the cretaceous series of the south of England, and reappeared again 
at the surface in Somersetshire; and he inferred that it was probable 
that the coal-measures might be found under part of the London Ter¬ 
tiary and Wealden districts.” We can testify that this belief is shared 
by many who have no theoretical geological knowledge to adduce in sup¬ 
port of their opinion. 
We may yet live to see a coal-pit in Trafalgar-square replacing the 
hideous squirts of water which now disfigure it. 
1. The United States Grinnell Expedition, &c. By Elisha Kent 
Kane, M. D., U. S. K. Kew Edition. London: Triibner and Co. 
1857. 
2. Arctic Explorations in the Years 1853-4-5. 2 vols., 8vo. By 
Elisha Kent Kane, M. D., U. S. K. Philadelphia: 1856. 
3. The Eventetjl Yoyage of H. M. Discovery Ship “Be solute,” &c. 
By George E. M‘Dougall (Master). London: Longman and Co. 
1857. 
4. Journal of a Yoyage to Baffin’s Bay and Barrow’s Straits in 
1850-51, &c. By Peter C. Sutherland, M. D. 2 vols., 8vo. Lon¬ 
don: Longman and Co. 1852. 
We purpose to confirm the theory of the Arctic Tides laid down in our 
last article on this subject, by the evidence collected in the books before 
us. The first of these books contains an account of the first AmericaD, 
or Grinnell, Expedition; and is principally remarkable from the cir- 
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