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they influence the position of the coal-beds. To give a distinct 
survey of STARING’s statements, I have united them in a sort of 
“profile”. One must however bear in mind, that this “profile”, 
does not give what really is, only what Srarine thought it to be 
as we know from his “Bodem van Nederland”. So e. g. in the “profile”, 
the faults are drawn vertically, which is certainly contrary to fact 
(whereas the coal-fields are drawn horizontally; the older anthracite 
in thin, the younger, bituminous-coal in thick-lines). 
So we have to deal with the following faults: 
I. In the neighbourhood of Eschweiler, we find a big fault, 
the so called Sandgewand, which runs parallel with the Miinster- 
gewand. 
II. Very remarkable is the presence of bituminous coal, so of 
that of younger strata, east of Kohlscheid and Kerkrade, which are 
known for their anthracite, a product of older strata; the former are, 
at the very least, lying 40 ell deeper than the latter. 
At the time of their formation, the position of the beds was of 
course horizontal, the younger covering the older. 
The cause of the present strange position is, the fact that the 
beds, which lie east, have sunk, and those which lie west, have 
risen, in a line, running parallel, with the one we just mentioned 
i.e. that of Kerkrade to Corneli-Münster. This fault, called Miinster- 
gewand, commences in the coal-valley of Eschweiler and Stolberg 
and runs on as Feldbiss, (a few hundred ells) north of the domain- 
mines of Kerkrade. At the top of the slope, to the right, of the 
valley of the Worm near Pley, south of Kerkrade, the outcrop of 
the fault lies bare. 
According to what we now know of the direction of the Feldbiss, 
the coal-bed which has been found in the Berenbosch, near Kerk- 
rade, lies east. 
This Feldbiss evidently forms the east border of the Kohlscheid 
tongue. 
III. Another fault must be somewhere near the valley of the 
Molenbeek, near Kerkrade. The coal found, by boring west of that 
valley, is truly anthracite, just as that of Kerkrade, but it seems to 
belong to quite different strata and not to those of Kerkrade, although 
one might presume them to be a continuation of those. Not impossible 
however it is that they are the outrunners of those of Kerkrade. 
IV. Further there is a considerable fault more or less in the direc- 
tion of the road between Heerlen and Aix-la-Chapelle. At the one 
side of it at Spekholzerheide, the level of the coal-beds, covered by 
tertiary layers, lies (one hundred and eighty ells) higher than it does 
