Lanterna Rally

Author: Charles Fox-Strangways

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781332210886

Excerpt from The Water Supply, (From Underground Sources) Of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Together With the Neighbouring Portions of the Vales of York and Pickering: With Records of Sinkings and Borings This is the fifth of the series of County Memoirs dealing with the water supply from underground sources, the counties already dealt with being Sussex (1899), Berkshire (1902), Lincolnshire (1904), and Suffolk (1906). Although this work is more particularly on the water-supply of the East Riding it has been deemed advisable to include all available records of borings and sinkings without regard to the purpose for which they were made, as all such records are useful in estimating the thickness and character of the strata. In getting together these records we have had much assistance from the Local Government Board, engineers, medical officers and others; especially from Dr. H. F. Parsons, Mr. W. Whitaker, Professor Kendall, Mr. W. H. Crofts, Dr. J. Mitchell Wilson and Messrs. Fairbank. Dr. Parsons, who formerly resided in the district, and whose knowledge of the country is very intimate, has given us much help and many useful suggestions. Ready assistance has also been afforded by well sinkers and borers, especially by Mr. J. Villiers, who placed his boring book at our disposal. These records are arranged in the four districts into which the country is naturally divided; but some sections at places outside the boundaries of the Riding are included, as many of these have an important bearing on the water supply of the strata within the area more especially referred to. The records are published as they have been received, but in most cases the geological horizons are indicated as far as can be determined, from the terms used by well-sinkers. Without examining the material brought up it is often difficult to decide at what depth the solid rock was reached. Dr. H. R. Mill contributes the chapter on rainfall and the rainfall map. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.