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Mr. Buddle on Mining Records. 



Brought forward, 



42 Grey Metal, mixed with Post 



Girdles, 



43 Black Metal 



44 Grey Post, 



45 White Post, ... 



46 Coal, ... 



47 Thill, 



48 Grey Metal, mixed with Post 



Girdles, 



49 Blue Metal, 



50 Coal, 



51 Thill, 



52 Blue Metal, 



53 Coal, ... 



Carried forward, 



fa. ft. in. fa. ft. in. 



23 4 10 



. 



10 



. 1 





 



2 3 



3 

 1 







1 



. 



1 11 

 

 5 



3 4 8 



2 1 1 



1 2 4 



31 11 



54 Thill, ... 



55 Grey Post, 



56 Grey Metal, 



57 White Post, 



Brought forward, 



fa. ft. in. fa. ft. in. 

 31 Oil 



1 2 1 

 32 3 



5 



Depth to High Main Seam, 113 



Ditto from Ditto to Bensham, 34 3 



Ditto from Bensham to Low Main Seam, 23 1 5 



Boring from Low Main Seam, 32 3 



Total, 203 2 5£ 



Several beds of Iron Stone have been met with also, as well as a few 

 scattered threads of Galena, in sinking the pits, and in the roof of the 

 Main Coal Seam. 



The High Main, the Metal Coal, the Yard Seam, the Bensham, the Low 

 Main, and the Beaumont Seams are all of workable thickness ; but the 

 High Main, Metal Coal, and Bensham Seam only have been hitherto 

 found to produce coals of merchantable quality, that is to say, of merchant- 

 able quality at the present era, but, there is no doubt, the time will arrive 

 when all those seams will become objects worth the attention of the mine 

 adventurer. 



4. — The Thickness and Quality of the several Seams. 

 The High Main Coal Seam, through the whole extent of this colliery, 

 with the exception of a few acres in the north-east angle of the boundary, 

 was found in the highest perfection, as well in height and quality as in the 

 hardness of the coal. As to the hardness of the coal, it is only necessary 

 to state, that in the working of the whole mine, or first working, nine-tenths 

 of the whole produce were round merchantable coals ; as it was not neces- 

 sary to screen out more small coal, viz. roth, than was barely sufficient to 

 supply the colliery consumption. This seam varied in thickness from 6 to 9 

 feet, exclusive of the " Ground Coal," and only about two-thirds of the whole 

 area was interstratified with a black slaty band 2 inches thick. In the 

 north and north-east part of the colliery this band occasionally reached 4 in- 

 ches in thickness, but this thickening was of limited extent. The thickness 



