South-western Coal District of England. 



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Fath. 



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p 



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5 















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1 



1 







(Section 4. continued.) 



2. Faulty seam [Muxton seam at Hanham ?] 

 Duns, principally, about 



3. Scragg seam [position and thickness of this ) 



seam not exactly remembered by the miners] J 

 Duns, principally about 



4. Stony seam [Great seam at Hanham ?] 

 Duns, principally, about 



5. Plox seam, variable, sometimes 



Section 5. 



Immediately below the Whitehall seams, are those worked at Easton. The 

 strata at Easton range in an east-north-easterly direction, by the Buncombe 

 liberty, towards the Lodge collieries, and in a south-westerly direction, by 

 the eastern suburbs of Bristol, directly towards the collieries of Bedminster. 

 The Easton seams must therefore pass beneath the southern part of Bristol. 



Dip south-easterly, 1 in 3 towards the crop, but less in the deep. 



Fath. Ft. In. 

 12 



Southern pit, 1 furlong 

 north of Upper Easton 



Middle pit 



Northern pit 



Descending order. 



Newer red sandstone 

 Duns 



1. Queen' s-bozcer coal (not worked) 

 Duns 



2. Polecat coal 

 Duns 



3. Dog's. hill coal 



I". 



V- 



Duns, from 4 to 



Primrose coal, in 2 seams 



Duns 



Little seam 



Hard rock 



Duns 



with a parting 



L 



6. Toad seam 



Tgood coal 2 ft. 6 in. 



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18 



18 

 



5 



? 



20 

 

 9 

 

 3 

 4 







3 



i shaly coal 



Below thcj-e seams another was worked, in a pit 100 yards east of the 

 Armoury, in the eastern suburb of Bristol. Two or three other seams have 

 been worked in the Buncombe collieries ; but we have not been able to 

 obtain any information concerning them. 



Section 6. 



In lower coal-shale, at Bedminster, in the western coal tract. 

 DipS.S.E. 1 in3. 



Descending order. 



Alluvial blue clay, with trunks of trees 

 Red ground .... 



Cliff or duns .... 



Greys, a compact grey gritstone, with argillaceous mixture 



1. Hard scam, not worked 

 Under-earth, a friable grit 



2. Top seam .... 

 Under-earth .... 



3. Little seam, not worked 



^ath. 



Ft. 



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4 











6 











20 











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6 















2 



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