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Above the Bamsley Coal there is sometimes found a thick 
bed of sandstone. It is best seen about Rawmarsh, whence 
its outcrop runs in a bold ridge through Nether Haugh, and 
contributes not a little to the beauty of Wentworth Park. 
Like the rest of the Coal-measure sandstones, it is very often 
replaced by shale. 
In the one hundred and eighty yards of measures above 
the Bamsley Bed is a group of coals, little worked as yet, 
but which will no doubt be fallen back upon when the thick 
seam begins to be exhausted. Unluckily all are more or 
less changeable, and, though several reach a fair thickness, 
they have none of them sufficient persistency of character to 
allow us to look forward to them as likely to furnish an 
equivalent for the supplies we are now drawing at such an 
enormous rate from the beds which are the present main- 
stays of the trade. 
Of these, the High Hazles, seventy yards above the 
Bamsley, is a good coal, four to five feet thick in the 
neighbourhood of Sheffield ; becomes worthless around 
Barnsley ; and is again workable, but only 2' 6" thick, around 
Mapplewell. Kent's Thin, a two-feet bed, twenty yards 
higher up, seems a fair coal, of more constant quality. The 
Beamshaw Beds, a group of two or three coals, are so 
excessively changeable, that they are never found alike 
either in number, thickness, or position, in any two sinkings. 
The Winter, or Abdy, is less inconstant, and should it 
turn out as regular in quality as in thickness, it will furnish 
a large supply of house-coal. 
The Half-yard, Two-foot, or Biding Coal, is very regularly 
present, but varies very much in thickness ; I do not know 
that it has ever been worked. 
Lastly, we have the Melton Field, Wath-wood, Wood- 
moor, or Summer Bed, which has been, and is, pretty 
extensively gotten. Where at its best, it is said to yield an 
