264 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL sociETy. _ [ Mar. 8, 
the west of Thorneliff. Towards this lme the rocks to the east thereof 
dip, as is shown north of Hayfield by the coal of Abbot’s Chair dip- 
ping westerly ; the flags at Car Meadow dipping W.S.W., a black 
goniatite shale on the south side of a throw at the same place dippmg 
15° N.W., carboniferous rocks (probably millstone) at Little Hayfield 
dipping about 15° W., and at the bridge in Hayfield about 30° W. ; 
the measures from Spmner Bottom to near Highwalls dippmg appa- 
rently west ; the first quarry on the road from Hayfield to New Mills 
(apparently upper millstone) dipping 23° W.S.W.; the yard-coal at 
Ollerset dipping westerly, the carboniferous measures from thence to 
Whaley dippmg in a westerly direction; the millstone flags at Fer- 
nilee and thence by the High Peak Railway and Goyts-bridge having 
a general westerly dip; the flags (probably millstone) east of Goyts 
Moss dipping 46° W. (the coal at Goyts Moss, on the west side of 
the anticlinal line, dips gently to the east), the rocks at Grim quarries 
dipping westerly, the coal at Thatch Moss (the lowest bed of the coal 
series) dippmg 11° W. by N., the coals of Goldsitch Moor dipping 
gently S.W. by W., the coal (the thick 6-foot) at Hazlebarrow dip- 
ping 37° westerly, the coal-measure rocks at Thorneliff (probably the 
lower coal) dippmg 17° W. by N. This synelinal lme I have not 
traced further to the south, but the westerly dip is seen in Stafford- 
shire near Oncote, Grindon and Ford, on the metalliferous limestone 
shales and the quarry at Waterhouses, where the dip is south-west- 
erly. At Cauldon lime quarry, to the west of this point, the dip is 
10° N.N.W. The same coal is worked at Ollerset, Whaley an 
Goyts Moss. ; 
This fault does not proceed forward in a direct northerly direction 
from the point south of Ludworth Moor, where the description of it 
commences. It there appears to cease at or merge in a fault which 
ranges from W. by N. to E. by 8., passing between Ludworth Moor 
and Mellor. The extent of this fault I have not had an opportunity 
of proving. To the north of the same the beds from the Water- 
meetings near Compstall to Chunal have a westerly dip, as seen by 
the black shale at Water-meetings dipping W. by N.., the coal-rock 
at Cote Green dipping gently N.W., the coal and gannister near Boar 
Fold dippmg W.N.W., the flags and shales to the east thereof dip- 
ping in the same direction up to the summit of Coombs Edge, where 
the dip is 8° N.W. by W. The yard-coal has been worked from 
Boar Clough to Ludworth Intakes having the westerly dip. This 
varies a little near the fault last mentioned. The yard-mine is worked 
near the brook north of Chadderton dippmg gently W.S.W., and the 
coal-rock, to the east of a throw ranging north and south at that 
point, dips from 20° to 40° from S. by E. to S.W. . 
The western side of the synclinal line, or Goyts Trough, is proved 
at its northern extremity, on the south of the last-mentioned fault, 
by the yard-coal, which is worked along Thornsett Brows and by 
Cheetham Hill to near Mellor, dipping E.S.E. and E. by S. about 
10°, and the flag cropping out from under the same, which is seen in 
the brook by Mill Clough near to the last-mentioned fault dipping 
gently N.E. An anticlinal line passes between Mellor and Marple, 
