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- t-JoLT to; 1885. 



EAMBLES WITH A EAMMER. 



By W. Jkrumk. Haruisox. 

 (Continued from p. 215, YU. 17/.) 



THK nortli-c:istrn. r 



extend far to the scui 1 

 there are collieries and 

 Bodwortli and Polcswc 

 colliery sliafts run in 

 from Eazcley and Wili 

 sist ' of dark-bine shii 

 containing five workali 

 nessisSOft. Thes^. ,-, 

 shales; so far :,s that ; 

 ninto^efhrr to f. rn 

 paratly with tli- ■ 

 Htaffordslnn. Coal-li.' 

 ditions and rrnlialilr al 



(.f the nunrral.-, r..l,-,,ar a, id h> rnhl, aaha Lookin- now to 

 al.nut r>00ft.. lil-h, coiiii.nscd ,.f .|uirt/,ite, wl,ich extends 



hill. It uill l,r iM-st t,o wall, al.ai- thr rU her abrupt 

 eastern hl,,j,r of thi.s rid-,., and tin ii to ivt niai to Nuneaton 

 rid Sto,-kln-fo,-d, whirl, Ih-M on tho u , ^tn ,, Mdr. Cross- 

 out-, a-o|. fr,Mn Tnith- Hill to I hut -I, ill, I'L ''.^,-rions 



by ^^d,i,d, 



land e 



1^1 



In 





marls (2,000 fr. tl 



been apjdied, but win ' - ' : . 



form-the' iippermo.st ,i , • , . i , ,: . | , i. 



mationV these e.xtii; ! ' • . 



distance of Leaniinn'f ■ n :•.;.'] W : -w i,'!: . ( O; i!,. ii,r:i|. 

 east, and west, the true relati,.,us <i the eoal-nietusurfS t,j 

 the Surrounding strata are obscured by faults — great dis- 

 locations of the rocks by which the beds are "displaced 

 from their true level to the extent of thousands of feet 



But it is of the rocks which undoubtedly lie I, low the 

 coal-measures in this district that we especially desire to 

 treat. In the maps and sections of the ^inh.-'nal Mirvey 

 the c6al-seams of Warwickshire are ,sh,?uii .is nu,l, i-hiiu 

 by 2,000 feet of " lower coal-mcasur,.s ■' 1,, l,iw uhi,li is 

 shown "millstone orit " l,O00f,..ct in tl,nk„, ., M ,thin 

 the 1 -■' 1 , o , 



Fij. 1.— The Wanviekshire Goal-fielJ, (^cale, 3 miles to 1 in.)' 



I^lixxl Pre-Cambrians. f^r'^//^ Cambrian Shales, j j Coal- 



Measures. ||[ [||||| Permian. j^^^^ Trias. -,-i_,-i- Railways. 

 Faults. (Tho arrows show the direction of dip.) 



--h" 



, i„- 





v,M 



Wo 



■r.hii 



which -als., ,■ MM, I the Wrekin, in Shrop- 



shire;' Cr, - ; I , there is a hue section 



exposed in a .ji, my ,1 :,■ to the canal. Here the 

 (inartiite is traversed by an intrusive rock, which 

 Mr. AUport has showTi to be a diorite, composed 



id a dis- 



-■ ■'' , t ' ' I ;- -parateil from the 



— ; i ;, ;. !|,/ v;u-ic.S iu ColopT 



iv-n vA/v.- o, ,•, ,1, ;.:.| ,.a, ,1a- v,,i.v sptvks of decoDl- 

 p, M-,1 hl.par. At it, h.-,. it i, r,::i , f an.atl.r fragments 

 of fclstnno tt.al .slat.a .haav,-l fn.ni tla- mcks beneath. 

 Esfimafin- tl,,' th la): ia>, ,,f tli^ ,j,t,rl/il,. at 1,000ft., 

 we tiud tliat, bau,hs of ...l,,d,, app,Mr alout the middle, and 

 as we approach the top tlas,. .shalv hods bLaa.me thicker 

 and mere numerous. No f,..sMls htu e vet been found in 



