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J. Prestwich, Esq., on the 



MEADOW PITS. MADELEY. 



Two Shafts, a few yards (12?) apart. 



Pit. 

 yds. ft. in. 



Soil 1 2 3 



Soft gritty earth .....7 1 2 



Yellow clunch 2 11 



Blueclunch 2 2 



Blue and white clunch 112 



Light rock, very hard 3 1 



Dark brown and blue clunch 2 4 



Light blue clunch 3 2 2 



Light rock 2 1 6 



A very hard stone 



Dark brown and blue clunch 3 10 



Blue clod 2 2 



Light rock 3 2 



Dark rock 1 2 4 



Sulphur coal 4 



Blue and red clunch 3 12 



Blue gritty rock.... 2 2 1 



Dark clod 4 1 10 



Light rock 3 2 7 



Sulphur coal 6 



Brown and blue clunch 2 14 



Dark clunch 3 10 



Dark rock 1 2 3 



Very dark rock 3 1 



Red, blue, and yellow clunch 2 2 



Sulphur coal 4 



Dark red and blue clunch... 4 10 



Light blue rock 3 2 1 



Red clod 5 1 10 



Sulphur coal 5 



Light rock... 4 2 



Dark blue and brown rock... 1 11 



Blue cloddy parting 7 



Brown and blue rock 2 10 



Light blue clod 4 9 



Sulphur coal 



Pricking 2 



Sulphur coal 7 



Dark coloured clod 2 10 



Sulphur coal 10 



Brown and blue clunch 113 



Dark pebbly rock 2 2 6 



Blue cloddy parting 1 1 



Dark pebbly rock 2 10 



Dark coloured rock 6 



Red clunchy parting '2 



Light coloured rock 3 2 10 



Dark coloured rock 5 10 



Yellow and blue clunch 3 2 6 



Dark brown rock 6 10 



Dark clunch 5 2 4 



Sulphur coal 6 



Dark clod 1 



Sulphur coal 



Dark clod 110 



Main sulphur coal 1 



Pricking under sulphur coal 4 



Dark strong clunch 1 2 



Dark rock 1 1 



Brown and blue clunch 10 



Blue and brown rock 2 18 



Light blue andbrown rock... 10 2 

 Red and yellow clunchy 



parting 10 



Crudley blue and brown rock 2 2 



Deep Pit. 

 yds. ft. in. 

 1 2 



1 10 



2 6 

 2 11 

 1 



1 1 



2 8 

 1 2 

 5 

 10 

 3 



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2 11 

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 7 

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1 10 

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 6 



2 1 



I 6 

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1 10 



Pit. Deep Vit. 



yds. ft. in. yds. ft. in. 



Dark rock, very hard... 10 4 10 



Darkrock, full of pebbles ... 16 14 

 liight rock, full of pebbles, 



green, blue, and red — hard 4 1 



Light rock 2 1 



Dark rock, very hard 1 10 



Light blue rock 2 1 



Blue rock 5 14 



Dark shining clod 12 



Top of the rider coal 6 



Rider coal 1 1 



Strong dark clod 



Bottom of rider coal 



Pricking under rider coal ... 



Dark clunch 1 5 



Heaving earth 110 



Dark clod, and large iron- 

 stone 20 1 o; 



Lessoms of coal and slum... 2 10 



Dark clunch 10 6 



The blacks 1 1 



Sill coal 10 



The bass 1 2 



Bottom coal 10 



Bottom coal, flint, or big 

 flint; upper and middle 



part of the flints 4 14 



Verj' hard brown stone 



Lower part or bottom of the 



flint 1 5 



Penney measure ironstone... 12 1 



Pricking under penneystone 5 



Clod under penneystone ... 1 1 



Sulphur coal 14 



Viger coal rock 3 12 



Viger coal 1 3 



Upper part of the two-foot 



rock, clunchy 2 4 



Middle part of the rock, 

 very large balls of iron- 

 stone line this rock 3 1 



Bottom of the two-foot rock 



clunchy 2 1 



Dark clod upon two-foot coal 9 

 Two-foot coal, very indif- 

 ferent 13 



Pricking under two-foot coal 



Upper part of the Ganey coal 1 2 



Little Ganey coal 6 



Lower part of Ganey coal... 2 2 



Ganey coal-stone 6 



Main Ganey coal 1 3 



Pricking under main Ganey 



coal 



Upper part of the best coal 



rock 5 2 



Clod on the top of the best 



coal 7 



Best coal 2 



Clod, very soft 1 



Clod, very hard 2 10 



Middle coal, very indifferent 2 

 Clod between middle and 



clod coal 10 9 



Clod coal, very good 1 10 1 10 



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