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concluded by saying that he should be glad to subscribe 
towards defrajing the cost of the sections, and he recom- 
mended that at the end of every quarter of a mile marked 
on the sections, a permanent bench-mark should be put 
down in the ground, "which could be referred to at any time 
hereafter. v 
Mr. S. D. Martix said he should be glad to undertake a 
portion of the section. 
Mr. Hartop observed, with reference to the suggestion to 
go a little to the north of the centre or Bamsley Line, that 
he had his fears that that Bamsley line itself was rather too 
far north. Tlie only thing that reconciled him to that line, 
as proposed by the Committee, was that it afforded facili- 
ties for getting valuable information on various matters 
which they could not come at if they were to go a little further 
to the southward. If they had to begin the whole thing 
de 71OV0, it would seem very desirable to adopt a line rather 
more to the southward than that pointed out, as the coal 
field was more equal, but he was disposed to give up his 
opinion in favour of a more southerly line, for the reasons 
which he had stated as operating to the advantage of the 
centre line proposed. He did, however, think that they 
would act very wrong indeed if they were at this meeting 
to prescribe any line for the Lancashire Society to adopt 
The Lancashire gentlemen should be at Uberty to select 
their own line, and that, without reference to what should 
be done on the Yorkshire side. They should select a line 
that would pass at right angles with their minerals. And if 
it did not deviate far from the straight line, he thought it 
might with great advantage deviate a little. He did not 
think it necessary that the two lines should meet in the 
centre of the Penine chain. There might be opportunities of 
uniting the two lines by particular observations, and if each 
could be so drawn as to give the gentlemen on each side of the 
ridge an opportunity of taking that direction which was 
best for their particular coal fields, it would be better than 
adopting one continuous line. 
Mr. Morton moved — 
" Tliat the Council be empowered to proceed "with the 
section fxom the eastern end of the tunnel of Sheffield 
and Manchester Railway at Dunford Bridge, across the 
Yorkshire Coal Field, in conjunction with the Manchester 
Geological Society, in such manner as they shall consider 
most likely to attain the desired objects." 
Mr. Embleton seconded the motion, and it was 
agreed to. 
