S54 Mr, Farey^s Stateme?it of Geological Facts 



The Ballycastle Coal-measures may have appeared to 

 Mr. D. to be elfvaled, from his saying p. 75, that " the 

 Sandstone, which may be traced from the southern to the 

 northern extremities of the country, and which seems to 

 be the body, on which all the other strata rest, is here out 

 of its usual level, being as it were forced up from its na- 

 tural place and hemmed in by Basalt, which it equals in 

 height :" which is founded it will be seen, on the supposed 

 identity of sand-stone (but which of them?) in the Coal- 

 measures, with that in the Red Marl, page 273 herein, at 

 the SE extremity of the County. I think, on the contrary, 

 that a grtdt fault or Gaw might be traced, from somewhere 

 near the tDouth of the Ballycastle Valley*, eastward to the 

 coast, and that the corner of the trough and of the Island 

 bevond this, has sunk (or the other been raised, who shall 

 say which ?) very manv hundred feet. 



Dr. Harnilton's account of these Coal-measures, taken 

 from the basset edaes in the sea cliff's, for they have no deep 

 shafts, but use Galleries or Drifts only, as given by Mr. D. 

 p. 86, is as follows; viz. 



" Bailvcastle strata, above and under the present working 

 Coal, at Gol'b Mine, by John Evans, miner. 



Yds. ft. 



Whinstone 20 This is the same stone (see 



page 269, herein) as the 

 Basalt of Fair- Head, and 

 is imperfectly columnar. 



Floating Slate S 



Yellow Freestone ... 14 



Slate and Coal 7 O > 



Hard gray Freestone . 30 O 

 Present working Coal 1 2 

 Slate, or Coal Seat ... 2 



Coal O 2 



Boarding and Slate . . 6 

 White Freestone ... . 12 



Coal and Slate l 



Gray Freestone 12 



Shivery Freestone .. . 7, Thus far the disposition and 



thickness of the strata ap- 



Carritd forward 120 pear to be marked with 



• Perhaps this f^uft, in one or more straight lines, or near it, may range 

 yet further south, sin^e Dr. R. mentions, that " the Freestone strata on the 

 north-west face of the mountain Bohal Bregagh, above .'Vrdmoy, afford some 

 JBilications 0/ C')aL" 



tolerable 



