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BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. 
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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 NEAR NEW 
YORK— Continued. 
Serial 
num- 
ber. 
Location. 
Depth of boring to ruck. 
As given. 
Referred 
to U. S. 
datum, 
Sandy 
Hook. 
Kind of roek, if known. 
Borough of Queens— Miscellaneous — Cont'd. 
Fleishman Manufacturing Com- 
pany wells, between Howard 
and Spring streets — 
1314 
Between Review street and 
L. I. R. R. (a). 
-124 
-114 
Limestone. 
1315 
(b) 
—124 
— 114 
Do 
1316 
(c) 
— 124 
— 114 
Do 
1317 
Between L. I. R. R. and New- 
town Creek, (d) 
Borough of the Bronx— Section along line 
of rapid transit on Westchester avenue 
and Southern boulevard. ^ 
-124 
-114 
Do. 
1318 
Brook avenue to about 100 feet 
southwest of Caldwell avenue. 
-7 to -12 
No rock. 
1319 
Caldwell avenue to 100 feet north- 
east of Robbins avenue. 
Oto- 4 
23 to 41 
Rock. 
1320 
From 1319 to Wales avenue 
-9 to —11 
No rock. 
1321 
From Wales avenue northeast 
300 feet. 
-1 to — 9 
27 to 41 
Rock. 
1322 
From 1321 to point 50 feet east of 
Beach avenue. 
-5 to - 8 
No rock. 
1323 
From 1322 to point 50 feet north- 
east of Union avenue. 
-3 to -10 
45 to 51 
Rock. 
1324 
1325 
From 1323 to point 120 feet south- 
west of Longwood avenue. 
From 1324 to Longwood avenue. . 
—7 to -10 
-7 to - 9 
56 to 59 
No rock. 
Rock. 
1326 
feet northeast. 
-9 to -10 
No rock. 
1327 
From 1326 about 150 feet north- 
east. 
-3 to -10 
56 to 61 
Rock. 
1328 
From 1327 to Intervale avenue. . . 
-5 to — 7 
No rock. 
1329 
From 1328 about 80 feet north- 
east. 
—7 to - 8 
24 to 25 
Rock. 
1330 
From 1 329 to Kelly street 
-6 to - 9 
No rock. 
aKlapp, Eugene, division engineer, rapid transit commission. Bottoms of even-numbered bor- 
ings, where rock was not sounded, are stated to be as follows: 1318 arid 1320 sand or mainly sand; 
1322, 1330, 1332, 1334, 1340, 1340, and 1352, sandy clay; 1324 and 1326, sand, gravel, and clay; 1328, 1342, 
and 1344, clay or mainly clay; 1338, sand and gravel; 1344, east of 172d street, largely sand and gravel; 
1348, sandy clay and sandy loam; 1350, west of 177th street, clay bottom, east of 177th street, sand, 
gravel, and clay. In certain odd-numbered borings, where rock was encountered, the reeord reads 
as follows: 1323, rock, except for about 40 feet west of Union avenue; 1339, rock, having steep siopt 
near Freeman street; 1349, at "about 100 feet northeast of East 176th street is a deep V-shaped depres- 
sion in rock surface, with quicksand in bottom." 
