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continue at least part way across them. There is great need for water 
at Yorktown, and there is sufficient possibility of finding water in 
basal Chesapeake beds at a depth of about 450 feet to warrant the 
sinking of a well to test for it. This suggestion would also apply to 
Warwick and vicinity. There is a possibility of water also at the 538- 
foot horizon of Olaybank. 
ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY. 
The success of the new 945-foot well at the Chamberlain Hotel, Fort 
Monroe, gives encouragement for deep-seated water supplies in this 
county. The failure of the boring at North End Point is thought to be 
due to inadequate testing of the beds, but it may possibly indicate that 
the waters at Fort Monroe do not extend northeastward. The slight 
salinity of the Fort Monroe water is unfortunate, but this may decrease 
as the well flows, and on the other hand the source of the salinity may 
not be widespread. The earlier Fort Monroe boring was within 38 feet 
of this water, but the 600-foot boring at Newport News was discon- 
tinued over 300 feet above it. 
I am of the opinion that it will be well worth the expense to sink a 
boring at Fort Monroe which shall go to bed rock — at about 1,350 feet — 
to ascertain whether there are lower and basal Potomac waters under 
the peninsula. 
NORFOLK COUNTY. 
The only attempts to obtain water in this county have been borings 
to moderate depths in the vicinity of Norfolk. The well at Money 
Point obtained fair water at 562 feet in Chesapeake beds, but at Lam- 
bert Point, Norfolk, these beds yielded only saline water. On the 
basis of my belief that there is a fair possibility of water in the basal 
beds of the Potomac formation near the bed-rock surface, I have 
encouraged the plan of sinking a boring at Norfolk to this horizon, 
which will probably be found between 1,500 and 1,700 feet at the very 
greatest (see section 4 of PI. XVI). Possibly good supplies will be 
found in higher beds, as at Fort Monroe. The boring is now in progress, 
but the result will be learned too late to go into this report. 
PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY. 
There are no deep borings in this county, and as the general condi- 
tions are similar to those in Norfolk County, there is nothing to add to 
the statement made above. 
ACCOMAC AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES. 
The well at Onancock, which was bored to a depth of 486 feet, but 
found no water below 140 feet, is the only one of which I have learned 
