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No. XXII. — Synopsis of the several Seams of Coal in the Newcastle District. 

 By John Buddle, Esq., Colliery Viewer. 



Read December 20, 1830. 



INTRODUCTION TO SYNOPTICAL TABLE, &c. 



I HAVE been induced to present to the Society the accompanying 

 Synoptical Table and Account of the several Seams of Coal in what 

 may be considered the working part of the Newcastle Coal Field, toge- 

 ther with the Sections which accompany this Memoir, in the hope of 

 being able to bring into an intelhgible point of view, as far as circum- 

 stances will permit, the whole of the workable seams which have yet 

 been discovered within the limits of the Field, so far as they can be 

 identified. 



The difficulty and embarrassment, which the geologist or scientific 

 inquirer experiences in investigating our Coal district, from the discre- 

 pance and apparent confusion in the arrangement and relative position 

 of the several seams of Coal, owing to the same seams being called by 

 different names, in different parts of the district, is well known. I 

 therefore present this paper to the Society, in the hope of being able, in 

 a considerable degree, to remove such difficulty, and to render the 

 knowledge of our Coal Field more easy of attainment. 



I also hope that it may not be unworthy of the attention of the Land 

 and Coal proprietors, as well as the Coal owners of the district, and 

 that it may likewise be useful to the young men of the colliery-viewing 

 profession. 



I have been the more anxious to furnish this paper to the Society 

 with as little delay as cii'cumstances would allow, as I am not without 

 hopes that it may, in some degree, be useful, as far as it goes, to those 



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