258 Mr. Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology. 
[P.266] knowledge of its facts, will doubtless continue to ery out 
- against these “ imaginary faults”? of mine.—They must be 
indulged herein, and we will continue our observations, until, 
as 1 hope, the Geological facts and structure of all England, 
are far better known than at present. 
1. 25, by ascending the ravines {.—t The practical Men 
employed on this boreing, knew better ; they had invariably 
seen, as they ascended the valleys, higher and higher beds 
of their Alum Shale, then the Doggers, then Gritstone and 
Shale strata, &c. belonging to the Coal-measures, each 
crossing in succession and being lost in the beds of the 
Brooks, instead of the stone there, rising © from under the 
aluminous schist,” which Mr. B. here tells them of ! 
Since Mr. B’s work was published, and the above was 
written, it appears that he has again dravelled across this 
district, and made some stay at Whitby, and I cannot avoid 
remarking here, that a part of Mr. B’s time on this occa- 
sion, might have been more profitably spent, whether we 
regard his own reputation as an observer and writer, or the 
interests of science, in revising, ‘by a calm investigation of 
facts,” and+correcting, the completely erroneous description 
(as I know from an actual Survey of part of them), that he 
has here published, of the structure of these eastern Moorland 
Hills, (see P. M. xxxix. p. 97), than it was in addressing to 
you, his very ill-timed Letter, (P. M. xlii. p. 121), dated 
s* Whitby, Julh y 15, 1813,” replying rather vauntingly, to a 
Letter of mine, that was not written until the day after this 
date, or published until the 31st of July !. 
Mr. B. owes it, I think, to the practical Men, whose 
judgement or something. else, he seems to have ‘arraigned, 
merely on the authority of his Hypothesis of * the expan- 
sion of Basalt” beneath (p. 265), for making an expensive 
boreing on the shore, in search of what (according to Mr. 
B’s Hypothesis) they might ‘* by ascending the ravines”’ in 
the neighbourhood, have evidently seen, without further 
trouble or expense, that he should revise and correct his 
north-eastern Yorkshire observations, thus erroneously made 
and published to the world. 
267, 1. 1, coal 4 to 8 inches*.—* This is Wood Coal, thick 
enough in some places to be wrought, see my Note on 
p. 157. In your xxxvth vol. p. 257, an account of this 
Coal and the other strata, extracted from a fuller one pub- 
lished by Mr. Richard Winter, will be found, with some 
conjectures of mine thereon, made hefore I had the oppor- 
tunity of examining this curious district. 
267, 1.8 and 10, coal strata terminate +.—t At the Great 
Derbyshire 
