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THE GEOLOGIST. 
the shaft-sinking. To illustrate it, I have sketched the geological 
construction of the district for three miles in a line north-west to 
south-east, adding a section due north and south of the near-lying 
anticline of Trimpley, where the upper tilestones crop out. While 
the work of sinking was in progress, I obtained daily intelligence 
either through visits or -by communications from Mr. Fellows, to 
whose obliging conduct in giving me every facility for scientific 
investigation I am greatly indebted. 
The specimens obtained from each bed were particularly examined 
by me, and the fire-clays, which, from their number formed an im- 
portant part of the series, were of a highly interesting character. 
The fossils obtained do not require special notice, no new fern being 
met with, and the Sigillariae, &c., being few in number and badly pre- 
served. These in every case lay prostrated in the strata, and 
appeared to have been drifted. 
PAETICULAES OF SHAFT-SINKINGS AT ARLEY WORKS, NEAR 
BEWDLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE, OCTOBER 30, 1860. 
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2 
Clay ... 
1 
2 
— 
3 
Rock binds 
1 
2 
3 
2 
4 
Blue 
5 
8 
2 
5 
Coal 
1 
2 
9 
2 
6 
Mottled red ground ... 
9 
1 
9 
18 
1 
11 
7 
Nearly same ... 
4 
22 
1 
11 I 
8 
Light, having appearance of fire-clay 
9 
6 
31 
2 
5 1 
9 
Mottled pink ground 
7 
6 
38 
2 
11 
10 
Mottled with yellow ground 
4 
42 
2 
11 
11 
Coarse fire-clay 
3 
45 
2 
11 
12 
Blue binds 
1 
1 
6 
47 
1 
5 
13 
Thin coal 
2 
47 
1 
7 
14 
Blue binds, dark 
1 
48 
1 
7 
15 
Light blue binds 
12 
60 
1 
7 
16 
Dark shale, nearly black 
1 
6 
61 
17 
Coal 
1 
7 
61 
1 
8 f 
18 
Inferior fire-clay 
1 
1 
6 
63 
2 
19 
Blue binds 
6 
69 
2 
20 
Light rock 
16 
1 
6 
85 
1 
8 
21 
Coal 
1 
85 
2 
8 
22 
Blue binds 
8 
93 
2 
8 
23 
Coal ■ ... 
6 
93 
3 
2 
24 
Thill ... 
6 
93 
3 
8 
25 
Coal 
6 
94 
1 
2 
26 
Brown and white rock 
28 
1 
6 
122 
2 
8 
27 
Conglomerate... 
2 
124 
2 
8 
28 
Wliite rock binds 
6 
130 
2 
8 
29 
Limestone balls 
1 
Ul 
8 
30 
Dirt or soft thill 
1 
2 
132 
2 
8 . 
31 
Red and yellow mottled ground 
4 
136 
2 
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