and the Strata, &c. in Derbyshire. 201 



cle-Chapel; the Excavation then pursues the line of a Fault, 

 in Shaie on the N and : st Grit on the S ; it leaves this Fault 

 and cuts through the 1st Grit to Gradl;atch, where it enters 

 the 1st Coal-ahale, the 2nd Grit and the 2nn Coal-shale; 

 when a Fault near Birchen Clouuh, again brings up the 

 Limestone Shale, in which the Excavation proceeds a short 

 distance, and then cuts through the Isl Gril Rock to Paniers- 

 pool Bndire, at the corners ot Chesliire, Stafiordshire, and 

 Derbvshne; whence it proceeds N a little way in the Jst 

 Gril, and crosses a Fault at Gallywood- House, into the 

 2nd Coal-shale, which it pursues past Dane-head Collierv, 

 and then ior a considerable distance through the 2nd Grit 

 Rock to Thatch-marsh Colliery, and on to the 1st Coal- 

 shale, where the Dane River originates, from the same Bog 

 which gives rise to the Dove, page 479- 



The Goyte also is a western River, which uniting with 

 the Ethrow at Water- ineelings in Ludworth, forms there 

 the celebrated Mersey, which runs to Stockport and Liver- 

 pool : the Water- meetmgs being in an Excavation in the 

 2nd Coal-shale, which the course of the Govte pursues up 

 to Marple-bndge, and there enters the 2nd Grit Rock, 

 which it cuts throutih, and exposes the 1st Coal-shale in 

 the i)ottom of the Dale, for some distance above and below 

 Mellor-Mills : the Excavation then again enters and pursues 

 the 2nd Grit, to the crossing of the New-Mills and Marple 

 new Road, when the Rock is again quite cut through, and 

 exposes the 1st Coal-shale for a short distance; then the 

 2nd Gril is again crossed, and the 2nd Coal-shale, and the 

 Goyte Excavation passes through the romantic New Mills 

 Dale (see page 70) in the 3rd Grit Rock ; which Rock it 

 pursues almost to Bottom-Hall, and then is in the 2nd 

 Coal-shale, till above Whaley-bridge : the 2nd Rock is then 

 pursued to near Taxhall, where the Excavation is in or ad- 

 joins a Hummock of the 2nd Coal-shale, for about a mile 

 near Shallcross-Colliery : near Fcrneylee the River again 

 runs on the 2nd Grit, which continues 10 Govte-moss, 

 where the Goyte originates on the 2nd Coal-shale near 

 Goyte- moss E Colliery. 



The Ethrow River, which discharges into the Mersey at 

 Water-meetings in Ludworth, as before observed, is there 

 excavated in the 2nd Coal-shale, vvhich it pursues to Wood- 

 seats in Charlesworth, and then its course is cut tlirough 

 Clifls of the 3rd Rock for near a mile, yet it enters again 

 on the 2nd Coal-shale, and pursues it 10 Wollev- Bridge on 

 the Glossop and Mottram Road ; then the 2nd Grit Rock 

 is tryssed, and the 1st Coal-shale, at Waier-side Mills, the 



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