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At Harcott, however, which is twelve miles South of Madeley, it 

 seems to me that we have some representative of them. The Coal 

 No. 7, in Section C, which lies 17 feet above the Coal No. 11, 

 Section C, is probably the Graney Coal. At 100 feet above this 

 Ganey Coal is a Black Shale, No. 5, Section C, which I consider to 

 be the representative of the Viger Coal; and 25 feet above this 

 is Noj 3: Cbal (Section C), only one foot thick, which I take to be 

 the Sulphur Coal. Upon this is a Blue Bind, five feet, which is 

 probably the Pennystone Measure, without any Ironstone in it, as at 

 Knowlbury. Now from No, 11, Section. C, which represents the 

 Great Coal to this Bind, No. 2 (Section C), is- 150 feet, about the 

 same as at C6rnbrook. I admit the case is not so strongly in favour 

 of the upper measures as of the lower. 



In the Billingsley Engine Pit Section we have two small Coals of 

 ten inches each at seventy feet below the zone of productive Coal- 

 seams. These may represent the Lancashire Ladies' or Crawstone 

 Coal of Coalbrook-dale. 



If the co-relation is thus established, many curious and interesting 

 inquiries will spring out of it, as to the denudation of the Coal- 

 measures to the South of the Coalbrook-dale field, and as it would 

 appear by the same process as channelled out the valley of the 

 Symon' fault as far North at least as Prior's Lee, leaving the Coalr 

 brook-dale field in fact an isolated Coal-patch, as we have shown the 

 Clee Hills, Harcott and Shirlot to be from the main Coal deposits of 

 the Midland counties, unless it be connected with them somewhere 

 tO'the North of Prior's Lee. 



isTOTiczES OIF :m::ei3vloii2,s; 



L: — Eeport of the Chief Commissionee. of Mines for the Pro- 

 vince OF Nova Scotia, for the Year 1870. 8vo. pp. 66. 

 (Halifax, 1871.) 



THIS report of Mr. Eoberston, the Chief Commissioner, supple- 

 mented by that of the Inspector of Mines, Mr. Eutherford, 

 shows the gold and coal mining operations that have been carried on 

 in the various districts during the past year. As regards gold 

 mining, the districts of Stormont, Wine Harbour, and Sherbrooke, 

 have each returned more gold than in the year 1869, and Tangier, 

 Oldham, and Montagu, more than in any year previous. The other 

 districts show a falling off, but on the whole there has been a con- 

 siderable increase in the quantity of gold obtained. Better modes 

 of mining and amalgamating are wanted, and until these are intro- 

 duced, gold mining cannot be carried on in any but the richest places. 

 As for the coal mines, it is stated that there are a number so well 

 managed, that they would be a credit to any country, and could now 

 supply any demand that is likely to be made upon them for some 

 years. 



