196 Charles Ketley—The " Red Rocks" near Birmingham. 



reaching the place of the | 

 thick Coal. « 



So long a time having 

 elapsed after the publication 

 of these opinions without 

 further trial being made to 

 find Coal under the red rocks 

 proves how generally the 

 warning had been taken. 

 At last the. Sandwell Park 

 Colliery Company, under the 

 guidance of Mr. Henry 

 Johnson, ventured to try this 

 doubtful ground; and their 

 enterprise has been rewarded 

 by the finding of the thick 

 Coal, as well as other Coals 

 and Ironstones common to | 

 the old Coal-field. 



Besides yielding to the 

 explorers the object of their 

 search, the Sandwell sinking 

 has afforded evidence en- 

 abling us to perceive that 

 the red rocks of Bullock's 

 Farm and the other West 

 Bromwich sinkings hitherto 

 classed as Permian are in fact 

 Coal-measures. 



In the Sandwell shaft, at 

 the depth of 110 yards, in red 

 measures, were found nume- 

 rous fossil plants, that on 

 being submitted to proper 

 authorities for examination 

 were pronounced to be Per- 

 mian. At 200 yards a seam 

 of Coal seven inches in thick- 

 ness was found; overlying 

 the Coal was a black shale full 

 of fossil plants, and under- 

 neath the Coal was a bed of 

 fire-clay containing Stigma- 

 ria. Several of 1he plants 

 in the roof- shale at 200 

 yards proved to be specifically 

 identical with others among 

 those found in the red beds 

 ahove mentioned, showing 

 that at the depth of 110 



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