SOME ESSEX WELL-SECTIONS.
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Bocking—"Beech Holme," Bradford Street, Dr. Taylor's, 1887?
Communicated by Dr. T. Taylor.
1571/2 feet above the sea-level.
Ample supply, but a yellow ferruginous deposit is thrown down from
the water after standing. Hardness 10°
The divisions of the Tertiary beds above made are somewhat
doubtful.
Bocking.—Silk-mill.
For an account of this well-section, differing considerably in details
from that in Geological Survey Memoirs, vol. iv, pp. 430, 431 (1872),
see Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1883, pp. 155—157; and, for further
record of the water-level, Ibid. for 1886, p. 240, and for 1887, pp.
362, 363.
Braintree.—Local Board Well.
Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1887, pp. 361, 362. A few yards from
the trial-bore, noticed in Geological Survey Memoirs, vol. iv, p.
362. The same section, but carried to a depth of 1171/2 feet in the
Chalk, according to information from Mr. D. R. Sharpe, of Brain-