168 COAL MINES 



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Hard black shale, with impressions of vegetables, .... 1 3 



Coal No. 8, bad, aiid full of gold, coloured pyrites, .... ... 1 1 



Tessalated claystone, with impressions of vegetables, . . , . 2 4 



Grey sandstone band, . £,'v' ^-vi v<> f • • • • • • • • .... 2 



Shale, with impressions of vegetables, .... .'k> I .... 5 



Grey sandstone band, . .... ...... ....... , ?• .. 4 



Shale, Mith impressions of vegetables, .... .... .... 3 



Grey sandstone^^ .'Q'ii. .... . v?;?(j[r;s>^3t-^'?''T: J^^rrd?:^; ..... 2 



Conglomerate bank of sandstone, clay slate, and other matter mix- 



ed in a confuse and mottled manner, h.|^^rco + i . . . .... 3 7 



Bank of hard, sharp, gritty, greystone, with cutters, and the 



S dip declining.more than in any of the top strata, 3 6 



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. . . Total, feet 88 2 



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Jletrospect of occurrences, and opinions formed thereon, wliile searching for 



•h~ . ... ... ... Coal in Sengal. 



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8 The N. W..coal district exhibits a considerable degree of confusion, 

 increasing as you proceed upwards, and is admirably adapted for the use 

 of an indolent race, of people, as coal, sufficiently good for common pur- 

 poses, is within. thQ reach o£ every bqdy. K,Aowing that dislocation of 

 strata,, alv,; ays Qcc.a.sions,the, coal .to be foul and dirty, I opened the works 

 in a situation wjiere I expected to be most free from it, but the plan of 



tthe works will ^he^y, that I was not quite successful, although I have 

 ascertained a mpst valuable point ; viz. the wheeling of the strata in the 



most desirable dir,eption .that could, b§ wished, crossing the great line of 

 navigation somewhere 2^qu\ Katwa,, where I have not the least reason to 

 doubt, , that coal Weill be fpuad, and the advantages that will result, must 



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