daeton.] MARYLAND. 133 
per minute of good water. This sand is high in the Chesapeake 
formation, and probably comes to the surface east of the other wells in 
Maryland and Delaware. 
Easton, Talbot County. — There are six 4-inch wells at Easton, reach- 
ing a depth of from 98 to 102 feet, which yield about half a million gal- 
lons a day. The horizon is about the same as at Federalsburg. A 
stratum of rock is reported at 97 feet in these wells. A boring 366 feet 
deep near Easton is reported to have passed through a rock stratum at 
220 feet, which is undoubtedly the rock at the base of the Chesapeake 
formation, with which water-bearing beds are associated at Cambridge, 
Denton, and on the Western shore. In another deep-test boring, made 
some time ago just south of the water company's wells, a depth of 
600 feet was attained, but no water was found below 100 feet. The 
well ended in a mixture of bowlders and clay with ironstone streaks, 
probably not far above the horizon which yields water at Claiborne 
and Crisfield. 
Miles River N~ecJc, Talbot County. — One well on the Shipley property, 
"The Anchorage," near the bridge, found water at 265 feet. The sup- 
ply is 15 gallons a minute and the water rises to the surface. The 
driller reports hard rock strata at 140 and 223 feet, the latter being a foot 
thick and probably indicating the base of the Chesapeake formation. 
Another well is about a mile due west, at Long Point, on Miles River. 
Its depth is 195 feet and the water-bearing sand lies on a rock stratum, 
which is probably at the base of the Chesapeake formation. The water 
rises to the surface at the rate of about 5 gallons a minute. 
There is a well at Tunis Mills which is 430 feet deep. The water 
supply is large, but the water is strongly alkaline. It is in sand which 
overlies a "coral rock" similar to that reported in the well at Claiborne. 
The horizon is apparently in the Pamunkey formation, and the well is 
the only one of which I have heard on the eastern shore which has 
found water in these beds. 
Centerville, Queen Anne County. — An attempt to bore a well was made 
at this place many years ago, but for some reason it was not a success. 
Nothing was learned as to its depth or record. 
Bay Ridge, Anne Arundel County. — The well at this place was sunk 
to 470 feet to a gravel bed which yields sulphurous and ferruginous 
water at the rate of about 20 gallons a minute. 
Hawkins Point, Anne Arundel County. — A well bored in 1895 has the 
following record: 
Feet. 
0-60 pink clay. 
60-100 pink sandy clay. 
100-120 fine buff sand. 
120 white and buff mottled clay. 
136 white and buff mottled clay. 
137 water in bed of sand between clay beds. 
Bowie, Prince George County. — At Bowie Station, 18 miles north- 
east of Washington, a well is in process of boring for the Philadelphia, 
