PROCEEDINGS OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 



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White Earth . . . . 



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Rock 



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Coal, Four-feet . . 



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Although the common opinion was that the two coal seams were the 

 same, there was not much evidence adduced in support of it. On taking 

 the strata immediately above the Four-feet coal at Agecroft, Pendleton, 

 and St. George's Colliery, Hochdale Hoad, Manchester, the two last-named 

 points being about 2\ miles apart and the nearest we can find, there is 

 considerable difference, both in the beds and their organic remains, as wiL 

 be evident from the following sections : — 



Agecroft. 





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Coal 



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Pendleton. 











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Coal ........ 



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