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85-113 alternations of sandy clays and water-bearing sands. 
113-120 reddish clay. 
120-129 white sandy clay. 
129-139 coarse yellowish sand, with small pebbles. Water. 
139-155 alternations of white sands and clays. 
155-169 gravel. Water. 
169-195 red clay. 
195-226 clay. 
226-242 sand, slightly red. 
L 242-276 clay and water-bearing sand and gravel. Water at 270 feet. 
276-290 greenish micaceous rock clay, evidently decomposed rock. 
290 solid rock. 
Eleven 4^ -inch wells were sunk a short distance east of the New 
Jersey Railroad station. Nine of these wells have yielded from 700,000 
to 1,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours. The water rises about a 
foot above the tide level and pulsates a few inches with each rise and 
fall of the tide. 
Three of the wells are in beds from 67 to 79 feet, four of the wells are 
in beds from 83 to 96 feet, and three of the wells are in beds from 149 
to 162 feet. One well is at 270 feet. 
There are six 3-inch wells at the Gloucester Gingham Works, near 
the Delaware River, about half a mile southwest of the waterworks 
well. They have depths of 65 and 102 feet, and each well yields about 
100 gallons a minute on pumping. 1 
Great Sedge Island, 2 Barnegat Bay. — This island is near to and north 
of Barnegat Inlet. The well was bored in 1892 to a depth of 320 feet 
with a 4^-inch bore. The yield is 10 gallons per minute. The record 
is as follows : 
Feet. 
0-2 sedge. 
2-5 blue mud. 
5-36 white sand with a 1-foot hard crust in middle and shells below. 
36-40 sand and marly clay. 
40-45 marly green clay, very tough, with gravel. 
45-50 green marl or clay, with small shells. 
50-57 white sand. 
57-58 ginger-colored clay, with bits of wood. 
58-77 g' ra y clay. 
77-80 green clay. 
80-90 gray and black sand. 
90-94 gray clay and rotten wood. 
94-100 chocolate-colored clay. 
100-120 gray and black sand. 
120-150 brown and gray clay, with small quartz fragments. 
150-151 hard sand crust of white sand. 
151-160 white sand, coarse gravel, and rotten wood; water at rate of 
1 gallon per minute at 158 feet. 
160-180 fine white sand and many flecks like mica; water, 2 gallons 
per minute at 170 feet. 
l L. Woolman, New Jersey report for 1893, pp. 404-406. 
2 L. Woolman in New Jersey report for 1892, pp. 290-293. 
