READING BEDS, 45-1/2 feet;-- Black Clay 2 Brown Clay 20 Light Brown Sand 0-1/2 Variegated Sand 18 Brown Clay 4 Flints and Pebbles 1 ------- To Chalk 116-1/2 CHALK 183-1/2 ------- Total 300 ------- The water rises to within 140 feet of the surface of the ground. The yield is 10,000 gallons a minute; only 25 gallons a minute from the bore; the rest from the headings driven north and south respectively at a depth of 154 feet. _Braintree._--The well sunk for the Local Board is in a field near Pod's Brook. The shaft is 8 feet in diameter, steined with 9-inch steining, and carried down 55 feet, the remainder of the well being bored. Strata;-- DRIFT, 14 feet;-- Feet. Sandy Gravel 5 Drift Clay 9 LONDON CLAY, 136 feet;-- Clay, with sand, shells, and septaria, the bottom part more sandy 126 Dark Sand, with a few shells, yielding much water 10 READING BEDS, 45 feet;-- Mottled Plastic Clays, getting more sandy lower down, and with specks of chalk 44 Coarse Black Sandy Clay 1 THANET SAND (?), 33 feet;-- Light-coloured Sands, firm and hard, getting darker and more friable lower down 20 Light-coloured Sands, firm, changing to coarse and dark 13 To Chalk 228 CHALK, with much water, rising to about 12 feet from the surface 17 ---- Total 245 ---- The level of the ground is 140 feet above the sea-level; water stands 29 feet deep; yield about 11,500 gallons an hour. _Brighton._--This town has always been supplied from wells sunk in the chalk. One well is sunk near the Lewes Road, and has a total length of 2400 feet of headings driven in a direction parallel with the sea, and at about the coast-level of low water. These headings intercept many fissures and materially add to the yield. A second well was sunk in 1865, at Goldstone Bottom, and headings driven to the extent of about a quarter of a mile across the valley parallel to the sea.