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1 feet 6 in. Coal B. Very good quality; the floor of seam not seen, 

 so that this is a minimum thickness. 

 33 „ „ Flags, (c) There is an out-crop of 75 feet horizontal 

 measured across the strike, in the direction of the 

 dip, here E, 35° N. ; at the top, the dip is as low as 

 15° ; at the bottom it has increased to 45.° The flags 

 are hard, brown and interstratified with six inch and 

 two feet layers of similar sandstone with carbonaceous 

 partings. 

 20 „ „ Black carbonaceous shales, interstratified with hard 

 micaceous flags. 

 , Carbonaceous shale — roof of 

 , Coal— D. 



, Dark carbonaceous shales. 

 , Hard brown flags. 

 , Hard sandy micaceous shales. 

 , Flags, with black shales and a thread of coal. 

 , Flags. 



, Fine laminated blue shales. 



, Alternating flags and grey sandy shales very hard below. 

 , Flags and shales with a thread of coal. 

 , A bed of fine grained fissile sandstone. 

 , Black shales. 

 , Coal. 



, Hard, earthy, laminated (or fissile ) flags, with a 

 thread of coal. 

 „ „ Hard, white fissile sandstone, with carbonaceous 



markings and partings, thickness obscure. 

 A fault here crosses the section, but its direction is not clearly ascer- 

 tainable, the whole mass being confused and broken up irregularly — ■ 

 below this break we have 



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