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of it, whereas they had 63 feet at Hoy land, and 100 feet at 
Rockingham. Almost immediately below it we found a thin 
seam of coal, and which is called on the Rockingham section 
"Cannel Coal." From this point to the Lidget coal, the 
strata appears very similar to Hoyland, but at Rockingham 
they passed through two thin seams of coal, of which we find 
no trace. 
The Lidget seam was met with at a depth of 221 yards, 
and 2 feet 10 inches thick, but rather less than the Hoyland 
section, the Rockingham section being still thinner. It is 
worked at Hoyland. 
You will no doubt notice that the regularity of the strata 
throughout the three sections, more especially with respect 
to the principal seams of coal, still continues. 
There was some hard material, as well as a thin seam of 
coal passed through before reaching the Joan coal, more 
particularly at Hoyland, where they had 54 feet of rock, 
From the Joan coal to the Flockton thick, proved at a depth 
of 293 yards, there is some difference in the strata of the 
three sections, as we do not find at Hoyland the Tankersley 
ironstone, which nevertheless is found to correspond at Barrow 
and Rockingham. 
Just below the Flockton thick coal we met with a very 
hard rock, 24 feet thick, and which is also found at Hoyland 
and Rockingham. From this point the comparative regularity 
of the strata existing in the Hoyland and Barrow sections 
gradually disappears. We found the Flockton thin coal, at a 
depth of 323 yards, of a poor quality, and the same remark, 
I believe, applies to the Hoyland and Rockingham section. 
In the thin seam of coal found about 7 yards below the 
" Flockton thin" a heavy feeder of water was met with. 
The Fenton coal is reached at a depth of 353 yards, very 
much broken up, and although the aggregate quantity of 
coal would make a valuable seam, yet the intervening band 
