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ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. 
[bull. 138. 
and loams were found to extend down to a depth of 21 feet, and below 
this the marl extended to 340 feet; at which point, no water-bearing 
strata having been reached, the well was abandoned. At other places 
in the county driven wells and bored wells have been sunk to a deptl 
of from 20 to 100 feet. Of these, none are? 
reported as overflowing, but in many of 
them water of good quality comes so near 
that it can be raised to the surface with 
an ordinary cheap pump. 
As to the probabilities for deep wells in 
this county, it may be said that the flow- 
ing wells at Franklin and Courtland, Ya., 
some 50 miles to the northwest of this 
point, where water-bearing strata are 
reached at a depth of from 100 to 150 feet 
below the surface, indicate that similar 
water-bearing strata ought to be reached 
at a greater depth below the surface in 
Chowan County. At just what depth these 
water-bearing strata would be reached the 
information in hand is insufficient to war- 
rant one to predict. The failure of the 
Branning well at Edenton seems to indi- 
cate the absence of water-bearing strata 
nearer the surface than 340 feet. It is 
probable that water-bearing strata will 
be reached at a depth not much greater 
than this. 
In the adjacent counties of Perquimans, 
Pasquotank, Camden, and Currituck no 
deep or flowing wells have been re- 
ported. In the first named of these 
counties a number of driven wells have 
been sunk to a depth of from 50 to 175 
feet in the vicinity of Hertford, on the 
Norfolk and Southern Railroad. In these, 
water of good quality rises so near the 
top that it can be easily brought to 
the surface by cheap pumps. In Pasquo- 
tank County good water is reported as 
having been reached in a similar way at 
Elizabeth City, and no reason is known 
why the same should not be done in Camden and Currituck counties. 
BERTIE COUNTY. 
. At Avoca, the head of the Albemarle Sound, a pipe has been driven 
to a depth of 180 feet without securing a flow of water. At this depth 
quicksand interfered so seriously with the progress of the work that 
