68 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [bull. 138. 
Feet. 
191^-192 dark clay. 
192-203 coarse sand, with 3 inches of bluish clay at base. 
203-204 sharp sand ; water. 
204-204| fine bluish clay. 
204f-217£ sharp clean sand; water-bearing; has 3 inches of wood at 
base. 
217^-218^ coarse sand and fine gravel, with lumps of white clay. 
218^-224 sharp sand, with lumps of bluish clay and a streak of iron 
pyrites crust. 
224-231 fine beach sand. 
231-233A sharp sand; coarser, with 3 inches whitish clay at base. 
233^-236 sharp sand, with scattering, whitish clay lumps. 
236-237 coarse sand and fine gravel, with white clay lumps. 
237-238 fine 1 ively sand. 
238-240 coarse sand and fine gravel, with white clay lumps and 3 
inches of whitish clay at bottom. 
240-241 sharp sand, with 3 inches of whitish clay below. 
241-251 fine beach sand. 
251-256 coarse sand . 
256-316 dark-blue clay. 
316-333 sandstone. 
333-341 dark-blue clay 
341-345 quicksand. 
345-365 very fine sand. 
365-383 sand not so fine as the last. 
383-395 quicksand. 
395-401 blue clay. 
401-405 coarse sand and wood. 
405-409 blue clay and pyrites. 
409-424 coarse sand. 
424-428 very coarse sand. 
428-431 fine sand. 
431-435 blue clay. 
435-438 quicksand. 
438-443 red clay, sand, and pyrites. 
443-448 quicksand. 
448-452 fine sand and wood. 
452-455 fine, white sand. 
455-456 white clay. 
456-462 coarse sand. 
462-466 white sand. 
466-472 coarse sand and gravel. 
472-481 coarse sand, white clay, and gravel. 
Owing to an accident, the well was bored no farther, and as the water 
which it contained was somewhat ferruginous it was abandoned. 1 The 
first 60 feet are in the lower portion of the Matawan formation, and 
the remainder is in the Earitan formation. Probably within the next 
100 feet the basal Karitan beds would have been reached and possibly 
a supply of water found in them. 
Key East, Monmouth County. — Just north of Shark River are two 
artesian wells, both of which yield an abundant supply of pure water, 
t New Jersey report for 1880, pp, 166-] 
