BOBBS.] 
BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. 
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Summary of records of borings made in New York and vicinity-^ Continued. 
3. BORINGS IN THE OUTLYING BOROUGHS AND IN OTHER LOCALITIES NKAR NEW YORK, 
Serial 
num- 
ber. 
1248 
1249 
1250 
1251 
1252 
1253 
1254 
1255 
1256 
1257 
1258 
1259 
1260 
1261 
1262 
1263 
1264 
! 1265 
Location. 
Sofough of Brooklyn^ 
Artesian well, Calvary cemetery &, 
Brooklyn Navy-Yard c -. 
East line of Furman street d 
"Hicks street" 
Borough hall 
Fulton street, corner Bond street . 
Keep street and Kent avenue e ... 
Forrest street and Evergreen ave- 
nue./ 
Lewis avenue and Pulaski street ff. 
68-84 Meserole street h 
100 feet west of Bremen street 
and 300 feet north of Noll 
street. ' 
200 feet east of Brunswick avenue 
and 290 feet south of 1258. 
100 feet east and 90 feet north of 
1259. 
Bridge street, corner Plymouth J . 
Hamilton avenue and Conover 
street. # 
Meserole, Humboldt, and Schole 
streets. l 
Metropolitan avenue, 125 feet east 
of Wei the avenue. m 
New Lots road and Fountain ave- 
nue. » 
Depth of boring to rock. 
As given. 
182 
93 
71 
■ 87.8 
- 58.4 
35 
65 
275 
105 
- 35 to -45 
- 70 
- 65 
- 65 
- 50 
60 
- 90 
- 60 
Referred to U. S. 
datum, Sandy 
Hook. 
-130 to -140 
- 63 
- 31 
2 
5 
- 85 
Kind of rock, 
if known. 
Gneiss. 
Do. 
No rock. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
a See Crosby, W. O., Techn. Quart,, vol. 13, 1900, p. 117, for records of many other borings upon Lour 
Island. 
b Lewis, Elias, quoted by F. J. H. Merrill, Annals New York Acad. Sci., vol. 3, 1885, p. 346. Surface 
datum. Elevation of ground taken from topographic sheet of New York City. 
c Superintendent of navy-yard. 
dNos. 1250-1253, rapid transit commission. Surface datum. 
e Chrome Steel Works, well 65 feet deep, 27 feet from Keep street curb line and 70 feet from Kent 
avenue curb line. 
/S. Liebman's Sons Brewing Company. Record of well 1255: 1-23 feet, loam and bowlders; 23-105 
feet, yellow gravel and sand; 105-275 feet, blue clay. 
ffH. B. Scharman & Sons, brewers. Three wells through sand. 
h Burger Brewing Company. Wells through sand. 
iObermeyer & Liebman, brewers. Three wells, 1258-1260, through sand. 
J Howard & Fuller Brewing Company. Well through coarse sand. 
k India Wharf Brewing Company wells. 
I Congress Brewing Company. Three wells through clay, sand, and hardpan. 
m Streeter & Dennison well. . , „ 
"New Lots pumping station (formerly Long Island Water Supply Company); 11 6-mch wells. 
