one, that I could see, being rather angular 

 and somewhat irregularly shaped. 



My landlord also told me, he had been 

 informed (for he had only kept the Inn 

 a year or two himself) that, when the 

 house was built, they had sunk a Well 

 nine yards deep through this bed of clay, 

 before they came to the stone ; the clay 

 may therefore, when compleat, very 

 possibly have been of still greater thick- 

 ness, but I had no opportunity of learning 

 any further particulars about it. My 

 Landlord also informed me, that he had 

 been told that in sinking the above Well, 

 they had met with in the clay a few 

 small stragling bits of coal, but nothing, 

 as far as he could make out, from the 

 vague account he had been able to pro- 

 cure, and which came through three or 

 four hands, that seem'd to have any ten- 

 dency towards a regular stratum. This 

 story, however, seems to have induced 

 the owner of the estate (Lord Winchelsea, 

 I think), to try for coal somewhere there- 



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