102 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



Seedley Section. 



N.N. 



Middle and Upper Coal Field. 

 a and b. Mr. Fitzgerald's old and new coal pita. 

 c. Seedley bore hole. 



6. Trias. 



7. Red marls and limestones. 



8. Conglomerate. 



At page 231, in the paper before alluded to, under the 

 head of " Pendleton," there was given a section of the strata 

 lying between Oatbank, on the Eccles New Road, and Kersal 

 Moor, both well known places in the immediate vicinity of 

 Manchester, and lying to the north and west of the city. 

 In that section, the upper new red sandstone, the lowest 

 member of the trias, was laid down; but the permian deposits, 

 although supposed to lie under the drift between Oatbank and 

 the Bolton New Road, north-west of Pendleton, were not 

 put in, no direct evidence of their occurrence in that part 

 having been then obtained. 



Mr. Appleby, of the Seedley Printing Company, has lately 

 made a bore hole at their works in Seedley, for the purpose of 

 increasing the supply of water there. In the spring of 1856 

 he called upon me for the purpose of ascertaining the cha- 

 racter of the deposits lying under the upper new red sandstone, 

 in which rock he had already several bore holes. I informed 

 him that it was pretty certain that the upper permian beds, 

 namely, the red marls with thin beds of limestone, would be 

 about 130 feet in thickness ; but the inferior portion, namely, 

 the conglomerate and lower new red sandstone, were rocks of so 

 variable a nature that it was impossible to say how thick they 

 might be — whether 6 feet or 600 feet. Mr. Appleby has since 



