Letter, account of boring a well at Queensborough by Frost, Young, Oxley, Roswell, Stacey, Hayward, Ward, Hogg, Dod, Finch, Devert, and Jones

Description

A letter regarding a well in Queenborough [Queensborough] near Sheerness that had gone dry and the subsequent efforts to bore further into the ground to find water. Also includes a list of strata from a 232-foot-deep well at Amsterdam from Vazenius's 'Geography'.

The letter was written at Chatham [Kent, England] and signed by the following: Richard Frost, James Young, Edmond Oxley, Ben [Benjamin] Roswell, Richd [Richard] Stacey, J Hayward, John Ward, Wm [William] Hogg, J Dod, Char [Charles] Finch, D Devert, Wm [William] Jones. All were the King's Officers at Shereness [Sheerness] and Chatham.

Subject: Hydrogeology

Communicated by Peter Collison [Collinson]. Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1727

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from the King's Officers at Sheerness and Chatham, to the Honourable the Commissioners of the Navy, giving an account of what they met with in opening an antient well near Queenborough in Kent, communicated by Mr. Peter Collison, F. R. S. on January 8, 1729'.

Reference number

CLP/6/72a

Earliest possible date

09 October 1723

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

4 pages

Format

Manuscript