Goldstone Bottom is a naturally formed basin in the chalk, the lowest side of which, nearest the sea, is more than 60 feet higher than the middle or bottom of the basin. The water is obtained as at Lewes Road, from fissures running generally at right-angles to the coast-line, but they are of much larger size and at far greater distances from each other; whereas at the Lewes Road well it is rare that 30 feet of headings were driven without finding a fissure, and the yield of the largest was not more than 100 to 150 gallons a minute. At Goldstone nearly 160 feet were traversed without any result, and then an enormous fissure was pierced which yielded at once nearly 1000 gallons a minute; and the same interval was found between this and the next fissure, which was of a capacity nearly as large. The total length of the headings at Goldstone Bottom is 13,000 feet. The yield from each well is about 3,000,000 gallons daily. _Chelmsford._--The well belonging to the Local Board of Health, situated at Moulsham, yields about 95,000 gallons of water a day. It is sunk for 200 feet; the rest bored. Water overflowed at first, but now that the well is in use and pumped from, the water only rises to 76 feet from the surface. The following strata were pierced;-- Feet. In. BLACK SOIL (Mould) 3 0 DRIFT, 63-1/2 feet;-- Yellow Clay 2 6 Gravel 12 6 Quicksand 44 6 Sand, with stones 4 0 LONDON CLAY, 186-1/2 feet;-- Clay 104 0 Clay, with sand 50 0 Dark Sand 12 6 Clay Slate (? septaria) 0 9 Clay and Shells 4 0 Clay Slate (? septaria) 0 3 Dark Sand and Clay 9 6 Sand and Shells 4 0 Pebbles 1 6 WOOLWICH BEDS;-- Sand 7 0 Red Clay 12 0 Clay and Sand 64 0 DARK THANET SAND 30 0 ------- To Chalk 366 0 CHALK, 202 feet;-- Chalk 88 0 Rubble 1 0 Chalk 113 0 ------- Total 568 0 -------