THE GEOLOGIST. 
]\IARCH 1863. 
OX THE BITUMIXOtlS COAL OF THE ARIGXA DIS- 
TRICT, COUXTIES OF EOSCOMMOX AXD LEITRIM. 
By Geoege V. Dn Xoyee, M.E.T.A., 
Senior Geologist^ Geological Survey of Ireland. 
" Why is it that there is no bituminous coal of any account in Ire- 
land ? " This is a question which I have often been asked by well- 
informed people, and the answer is comprised in the one descriptive 
Fig. 1. — Juuctiou of basal sandstones and black ironstone shales, on stream bounding 
the townlauds of Tiillymurry and TuUycorka, north-east base of Altagowlan mountain, 
County Leitrim. 
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