| RefNo | CLP/6/72a |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, account of boring a well at Queensborough by Frost, Young, Oxley, Roswell, Stacey, Hayward, Ward, Hogg, Dod, Finch, Devert, and Jones |
| Date | 9 October 1723 |
| 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'. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0027 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/14/87 |
| RBO/14/86 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8428 | Collinson; Peter (1694 - 1768) | 1694 - 1768 |