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and Charleroi) basin, the measures are 9400 feet sap. with 110 
seams of coal; in the Liége basin 7600 feet, with 85 seams; and 
in Westphalia 7200 Sor with 117 seams. On is other hand, 
none of our central or northern coal basins, with the exception of 
the Lancashire field, aesond half this thickness, and more generally 
are nearer one fourth. Further, the difference which exists be- 
orth 
steam, and smiths’ coal in the a equally exists between our 
northern coals and those of Belgium, which latter show, on the 
one hand, close affinities with see of Wales and Bristol. I am 
informed by two experienced Belgian hoe ing ets hat and 
nomical purposes. Organic remains afford us a little help; but 
not sufficient is yet known of their relative distribution. The 
) elgiu 
similarity of mass and structure, uniformity of subjection to like 
oe was in ihe north ak the cc cinaitiows fitted for the formation 
of coal first set in. The common Stigmaria ficoides and various 
ats aera Pe appear oat the base of the Carboniferous or i 
uedian series of Northumberland, which there overlies con- 
Fornably the Tesies Old Red Sandstone ; and productive beds of 
coal exists low down in the Moaataindiimestone series. ese 
ri 
the coal fiooth: me in eatlier in the Seth, it seeme to have been 
P rolonged further south, under more favorable conditions, to @ 
ater period. What those conditions were—whether the proximity 
of a greater land-surface, of a longer and aes subsidence, wit 
more numerous rests—we cannot yet pretend to to say. 
9. Recent Observations in the Bermudas ; by MatruEew JONES. 
—As my late visit to these islands has placed me in possession 
facts relating to their original aspect of a somew . conclusive 
nature, I deem it advisable to communicate sis in a brief form 
instead of awaiting the time spew for the separates bof a more 
elaborate paper on the = 
On previous occasio 2a always regretted my inability, 
from lack of time, to jade ate aonb into their geological ¢ 
acter in the hope of discovering some satisfactory clue to thelr 
primitive condition. I oi aware that in different parts of the 
