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lev, Little Wenlock, Madeley, Barrow, Benthal], and 



euppv - for the great iron manufactures iu that neio-h- 

 bourhood for domestic use, and as an export to other 

 counnesby the nver Severn, on or near the s'ides of which 

 thcv he. South of these works, and on the other side of 

 Bndgenorth from them, coal appears again. It may be 

 found in most parts of ihe hundred of Stottesden ; buJ the 

 roads in general arc an obstruction to its being removed 

 South again of the^e, and of tlie Clee hills, are very vahia- 



IS found. Mr lY^nnant, m his Voyasje to the Hebrides 

 remarks that the name is probably c«««'/. coal, from .ivim' 

 a light that supersedes, m poorer houses, the use of candle - 

 and the bishop of Llandaff, in his Cliemical Essavs, ha^ the 

 same ulca, supported by the circumstance, tha in^ e 

 northern counties candles are called cannels The sout ! 

 west parts of this county have not vet been proved to con- 

 tarn coal ; and the mliabitants purchase, at a oreat evpen c 

 of land carriage, coal from the Clee hills, or fmm co en S 

 n the west parts of Shropshire : such Uiere are we Ind 

 south-west of Shrewsbury. Again, on the west and north- 

 west borders of the county, coal of a good quality is ,ot „ 

 Out of fifteen hundreds, the following large proporfim f 

 ten are known to produce coal: viz. Osw^estfv, Ford 

 Shrewsbury, Bradford South, Brimstrv, Wenlock Cun 

 dover, Munslow, Overs, and Stottesden. Mr WiU^ 

 Reynolds has favoured me with the followino- lists of nt' 

 in ve efferent collieries m the eastern dustric./ hI ,ame 

 u.ll add an interest and value to the communication in ' 

 opinion of all those who have the pleasure of knowing"nm' 



Strata In Llghtmoor JFlrasey Pit. 



A good loam, and mixed soil _ . » 



Pale blue clunch 



park gray rock, not very strono- _ I 



Sky blue clunch - '^ - . 



Three stinking coals, divided by pale bine earth 

 two mchcs between each ' _ ' 



1 1 fi 



the strata of ironstone nnd coal, c'av'. ivc to t rp.tiin j .1 

 " lidw. Harries, ts'^. 



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