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stone resembling Old Red Sandstone. In the drift there is 

 a thin coal-seam, together with shale, resembling the " pan " 

 of coal-miners, in which there occur indications of Stigmaria 

 rootlets (dip 27° SSE). The shales do not resemble those of 

 the Lower Transition Beds, which may be examined in the 

 cutting near Maesbury Station two or three miles further 

 South. 



A'hundred yards or so to the West of this adit is another 

 heading which was driven about thirty-seven yards. It was, 

 as described in Mr. Hippisley's notes, " carried as far as 

 water flint bed seen in the pond bank" (^^e., a white, close, 

 Millstone Grit), " a vein of coal and two inches good fire-clay 

 proved." ''Three beds of laminated cla^'^-stone. Good iron 

 shown in crucible." 



A hundred yards or so still farther West is another head- 

 ing, " carried to stout rocks thirty-four yards from hedge, 

 Farewell rock to wit." Here, as in the first heading, there 

 is, near the mouth of the heading, hard close Millstone Gri't, 

 together with fragments resembling very closely Old Red 

 Sandstone. 



Yet farther West, a little bej^ond the end of the pond, 

 there is a cowshed built of Millstone Grit, of which Mr. 

 Hippisley notes that it has " Farewell rock for floor." 



These headings and exposures are to the West of the adit 

 mentioned in the Survey Memoir. To the South-East of it, 

 on the other side of the road, a heading was driven ninety- 

 five yards in " very faulty ground." The beds were perpen- 

 dicular and irregular." In it were found the " end of a (coal) 

 vein," and "indications of a vein and fire clay." And again, 

 a little farther East, and higher up the hill, there was made, 

 in 1857, " a gutter for draining six feet deep along hedge. 

 At bottom, coal-measures, clay, and greys." 



(3) In the Survey Memoir we read : " Old Red Sandstone 



