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In the first place the upper beds in the Coal field have 

 upon them some of the most valuable lands in Yorkshire, 

 which consist of grazing pasture and most excellent wheat 

 soils ; as at the Heath, Nostell, Badsworth, Lord Galway's, 

 at Felkirk, and at Mr. Foljambe's estate at Brierley ; further 

 south, Mr. Fountaine Wilson's land, at Melton, lets at 30s. 

 to £3 per acre. All the borings and sinkings afford a list 

 of sandy binds, or clays mixed up with sand, which do not 

 usually require draining. 



Below these, and further west, there are three thick beds of 

 Sand Rock, which come to the surface, and afford the lands 

 of Sandall, near Wakefield, WooUey Park, Monk Bretton, 

 Wombwell, Wath, &c., light sandy sheep soils, the agriculture 

 of which, for twenty to thirty miles, corresponds to the rocks 

 upon which each farm is located. 



Below these four rocks, binds consisting of more Clay 

 with less admixture of Sand prevail, and occupy the largest 

 portion of the Coal district, and contain the most valuable 

 coal mines, some of which are worth £400 per acre. Even 

 some of the beds, as the muscle band ironstone, with its 

 coal, can be traced when only 20 to 60 yards deep, by the 

 very wet and clayey lands above it. 



The Flagstone and Millstone Grits at the bottom of the 

 series then come to the surface, and their productiveness is 

 limited by the elevation to which they rise, for they form 

 some of the most elevated regions. When sheltered and in 

 valleys, there is seen upon them some excellent meadow land, 

 also good wheat and barley : indeed Penistone seeds for 

 laying down grass are celebrated. But upon the western 

 heights, 1200 to 1800 feet above the level of the sea, the 

 crops, from the severity of the winter, are cut up, and 

 hay harvest is commonly not completed by the 12th of 

 August, and the oat crops are frequently not housed before 

 November. 



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