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Mr. Farey’s Reply to Mr. Bakewell.on the Faults. 11% 
opinion. I had the pleasure however of receiving a most 
patient and candid hearing, for explaining the grounds and 
_arguments advanced in favour of my positions, and the 
opportunity of discovering, that none of them were met by 
any materially adverse facts or arguments; but nearly all 
present, contented themselves with referring to the simi- 
larity in thickness and quality of the Seams of Coal, at 
most including their roof and floor, that were contended tu 
be identical, as Mr. B. does at p, 148: and to the fact of 
a regular kind of dine, in which the works on these seams 
stretch across the district, yet very oblique to the edge of 
the yellow Lime, Rep. i. 166. 
At that time, I possessed but a few of the actual Sinkings. 
of Pits in the neighbourhood, which I have since obtained ; 
and at several works, such had not even been made or pre- 
served, particularly in the two parts of Greasley works, 
which I discovered on inquiry, to be separated by a fault 
said to derange the Coal (about a yard | think) when that 
part was in work, some years before; but which almost 
forgotten fault, from its direction and attendant circum- 
stances, | judged to be far more considerable in effect (see 
my Note on Mr. B’s page 147, in a future Letter), and 
which nothing but a comparison of the actual sinkings of 
the Pits on each side of it, could decide. 
Thus precisely stands the question at present, no facts 
having reached me from the practical men or otherwise, 
but what tend rather to confirm than oppose my explana- 
tion: and since Mr.B. has resorted to the opinions now, of 
certain of the gentlemen alluded to, if he will candidly 
communicate their names, and such facts as they may be 
pleased to intrust him with, in confirmation of their opinion, 
and to avoid misconception, I promise to do the same, 
and perhaps Mr. B. may then discover, that he does not 
now stand in the same triumphant majority, as he would 
have done, before, or nearer to the time that my Report, and 
the principles of faults therein explained, were submitted 
to the public. 
I may however, I think, fairly now ask of Mr. B. re- 
specting the gentlemen whose opinions he has advanced 
against me, Did he hefore taking such opinion sask each in- 
dividual, whether they had attentively read my Report, and 
fairly weighed what I had adduced, against their opposing 
facts ? 
Another large and important Fault which I have traced 
in this district, and called the great Limestone Fault, Re- 
port 
