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yet known that it deserves special attention, and of this I will 

 endeavour to treat more in detail. 



The dislocation to which I refer appears to attain its fullest 

 development within the manor of Kadstock, where all the facts 

 connected with it have been well ascertained and established. 

 In each of the veins of the upper series the workings have 

 been carried against the fault within the manor, several of the 

 shafts have been sunk through it, and several " galleries" 

 have been excavated in the " leader" or line of fracture, so 

 that there have been the fullest opportunities of obtaining 

 information respecting it. 



Its course has been traced from its junction with the 100 

 fathom fault at a point near the west side of the parish of 

 Eadstock to the neighbourhood of Writhlington on the eastern 

 side, but its eastern and western extensions beyond those 

 points have not been so well ascertained. At one time it was 

 believed that it terminated at the 100 fathom fault — proceed- 

 ing no farther to the west ; but from inquiries which I have 

 been permitted to make at Clandown Colliery I have satisfied 

 myself that it exists there, although in that direction it 

 probably decreases in extent. It must die out before reaching 

 Paulton, for although that neighbourhood has been well ex- 

 plored I cannot learn of its having been met with there. Its 

 eastern extension through the Writhlington property has 

 been satisfactorily established, but the veins in its vicinity 

 have been less explored, and less is known respecting it than 

 in the Eadstock Manor. In proceeding eastward it seems to 

 divide into a succession of overlaps, which, taken together, 

 throw in the same extent of extra coal as at other points 

 where there is one clearly defined dislocation. 



Whether the breaking up of the fault into several parts 

 may be taken as an indication that we are nearing its eastern 

 termination, is a question which we may hope one day to 

 solve, but meantime I would consider it not improbable. 



