136 BORING IN SEARCH OF COAL IN ESSEX.
Council ; and to render the story complete, we print the import-
ant parts :—
" Any person who shall take or destroy, or incite any other person to
take or destroy, the eggs of any Wild Bird [i.e., any bird mentioned in the
schedule], in the undermentioned area ; shall be liable, on conviction, to a
Penalty of not exceeding One Pound, for every egg so taken or destroyed.
The Area above Referred to.
" The whole of the Foreshore, including the shingle, sand hills, salt
marshes, creeks, and other uninclosed lands extending from highwater mark
to the first boundary of enclosed or cultivated lands separating the foreshore
from them, between the following points on the coast, viz.:—
'' From Harwich Lighthouse to Shoeburyness ; such parts of the tidal
river Blackwater as are above the Town of Maldon, such parts of the river
Colne as are above Wyvenhoe, and such parts of the river Crouch as are
above Battles Bridge, being excepted from the said area."
Attention is now being directed to the decrease of many of
our rarer insects and plants, and an important discussion on this
subject (including also the question of the preservation of
mammals and birds) took place at the meeting of the Club at
Lady Warwick's seat, Easton Lodge, near Dunmow, on July
21st. We must defer the report of this discussion until the
next part.
BORING IN SEARCH OF COAL IN ESSEX.
GREAT WAKERING SELECTED AS THE SITE FOR
THE THIRD TRIAL BORING.
ON June 1st a meeting of the Eastern Counties Coal-Boring
and Development Association was held at Ipswich, to
decide upon the site of the third trial boring. The following is
an abstract of the Report which the Directors submitted to the
Shareholders. A great deal of information on this interesting
and important problem will be found in previous articles in the
Essex Naturalist, vols. viii. and ix., and in the present volume,
ante pp. 9-10 :—
'' When the last annual report was issued the Weeley Boring was in
progress and had gone down 622 feet. This boring was continued to a total
depth of 1,221 feet 6 inches, but your Directors regret to state that no signs of
coal or other minerals were discovered during the progress of the boring.
" The following is a section of the Bore-hole from the surface [with the
corresponding boring at Stutton, Suffolk, for comparison] :—