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Upper Sulphur coal 

 Intermediate measures 

 Little, or Two-foot coal 

 Intermediate measures 

 (I.) Brooch coal . 



(I. 1) Brooch binds, ironstone measures 

 Herring coal (not known north of Dudley) 

 (I. 2) Pins and Pennyearth ironstone measures 

 Intermediate measures containing the sandstone known as Thick coal rock 

 (1. 3) Broad earth, Catch earth, and Batt, containing the Ten-foot, and Backstone 

 ironstones in the Pensnett district 

 (II.) Roofs coal, or Top floor 

 (III.) Top slipper, or Spires, or Spin coal. 



These two form the Flying reed when separated from coals below 

 (IV.) Jays, or White coal 

 (V.) Lambs, or Floors, or Fine Floors coal. 



These two are often either mentioned together under the name of 

 "White coal," or else the lower one is absent 

 (VI.) Tow (tough), or Heath coal 

 (VII.) Benches coal (this bed is but rarely mentioned) 

 (VIII.) Brassils, or Corns coal 

 (IX.) Foot coal, or Bottom Slipper, or Fine coal 

 (X.) John coal, or Slips, or Veins coal 

 (XL) Stone, or Long coal 



(XII.) Patchells coal (sometimes absent or not mentioned) 

 (XIII.) Sawyer, or Springs coal 

 (XIV.) Slipper coal 

 (XV.) Bottom Benches, or Omfray (Humfray), or Red, or Km (Kick?), or 

 Holers coal 

 (I. 4) Pouncill batt, Blactery and Whitery, containing the Grains ironstone, and 



sometimes the Whitery ironstone 

 (I. 5) Gubbin ironstone measures, sometimes called the Little, or Top, or Thick 



coal gubbin, sometimes the Black ironstone 

 Table batt and intermediate measures ...... 



(XVI.) Heathen coal .... . . . 



Intermediate measures (sometimes wanting) ..... 



(XVII.) Rubble, or Lower Heathen coal, sometimes, when the measures above 



are wanting, forming the bottom part of the Heathen coal, sometimes 



itself wanting, when the measures above and below seem to be both 



present 



(I. 6) Intermediate measures containing, at Bentley, the ironstones known as the 



Lambstone and Brownstone 

 (I. 7) New Mine, or White ironstone ...... 



(I. 8) Measures containing the Pennystone ironstone, called also Bluestone or 



Cakes 

 (XIX.) Sulphur or Stinking coal 

 Intermediate measures ..... 



(XX.) New Mine coal ..... 



(I. 9) Measures containing Fireclay Balls ironstone (occasionally) 



(XXI.) Fireclay coal (and partings) 



Intermediate measures ..... 



(I. 10) Getting Rock ironstone (occasionally) 

 (I. 11) Poor Robin ironstone measures 



about 1 foot. 

 140 feet. 

 2 feet. 



from 2 to 48 feet, 

 about 4 feet, 

 from 7 to 20 feet, 

 about 1 foot, 

 from 7 to 30 feet. 

 „ 38 to 157 feet. 



• ,, 6 to 14 feet. 



\ about 30 feet. 



• from 2 to 8 feet. 



• „ 2 to 8 „ 



„ 2 to 28 „ 

 about 3 feet, 



from to 43 feet. 



v „ 2 to 4 „ 



• „ 10 to 33 feet. 

 „ 2 to 10 



> „ 10 to 25 



„ 2 to 9 



„ 3 to 99 



,, 2 to 11 



„ 2 to 40 



„ 1 to 14 



„ 2 to 10 



„ 4 to 5 



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