III. 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

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Right Honourable, In Obedience to your Honours Warrant of the 16th of September last, we met at the Well near Queen borough , where the Castle formerly slood, on Tuesday the 24th ditto , and finding but very little Water at the Bottom on our Sounding, and it having a new Curb, lately fix’d on the Top, we provided our selves with Buckets and Ropes, and lower’d down a Man, who acquainted us, that it was clean'd, and the Ground sunk four Feet deeper than the Curb at the Bottom.