332 E. Hitchcock on the Coal of Bristol Co., and R. Island. 
coal which I have seen from this spot is not good, having forty 
per cent. of ash. Strike of the bed, nearly E. and W. ; dip, 45°N. 
4. In Raynham.—An outcrop of coal appears in this town, 
about three feet thick, which has not been explored, except a few. 
feet. Strike, N. 50° E., dip, 45° S. E 
5. In Bridgewater.—Indications of coal were shown me from 
the rock thrown up in digging a well in the south part of the 
town, but nothing further could be learned. | 
6. In Taunton.—Two miles northwest of the town, asimilar 
opening was shown me, but | could not learn the dip and direc- 
tion of the slate. Four miles to the west of the town, I wastold 
that similar indications existed. The same is true of West 
Bridgewater; and in Berkley coal plants are found, such as usu- 
ally accompany beds of coal. 
Williams mine, which was opened many years ago; but the 
works were burnt, and the explorations abandoned. But they 
have been resumed within a few years, under the superintendence 
of Capt. Thomas Martin. A shaft has been sunk three hundred 
feet perpendicularly, into which I descended, with Capt. Martin. 
The old bed, whose strike was nearly N. E. and S. W., has been 
abandoned, and by carrying a horizontal drift two hundred and 
sixty feet, a new bed was struck, which, at the place, runs nearly 
N. and S., and dips west about 45°. The average width was 
stated to be fifteen feet, and in some places twenty-three feet. If 
this be not a mere protuberant mass, occasioned by lateral pres- 
sure, it indicates a larger amount of coal than I have seen in any 
other mines in this coal field. 
8. The Valley Falls Mine—This is scarcely more than 4 
mile south from the Roger Williams mine: yet the strike of the 
beds will not allow us to suppose them connected. ‘The ,opera- 
tions here are carried on by the Blackstone Coal Company. A 
shaft is carried down, which follows a bed of coal, with dip near 
the surface of 30° to 45°. This bed, which I examined several 
