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nearly at right angles with the line of section. The objec- 
tion to Mr. Morton's line, Mr. Thorp had pointed out much 
more clearly than he could do. He was of opinion that the 
line he recommended was one from which they would obtain 
the best information respecting the coals and ironstones, and 
on that account, and not because he resided near to it, he 
thought it was the best for the Society to adopt. He admit- 
ted that it was a matter of opinion, and he should not have 
ventured to have offered one, if he had not been practically 
acquainted with the line he proposed. 
Mr. T. W. Embleton said, he begged to detain the meet- 
ing with a few observations on the line of section which Mr 
Thorp had proposed, and he was induced to do so because he 
understood that Mr. Thorp at one time highly approved of 
the line of section which he had this morning so strongly 
condemned. He much regretted that Mr. Thorp had not 
before given the Society the benefit of the remarks which 
had just been read. When the proposal for completing a 
section across Yorkshire was first agitated, the object in view 
was, with the assistance of the section, to ascertain if there 
was any similarity between the coal field of Yorkshire and that 
of Lancashire, and as far as he (Mr. E.) had always understood, 
such was the object of a section now. The section was not in 
particular to illustrate the Yorkshire coal Jield, but to he the 
means of comparison between the two coal fields. To effect 
this the section across Yorkshire should commence at the 
same point as the section across Lancashire. The West- 
Riding Society did not pretend to dictate to the Lancashire 
gentlemen as to the line they intended to take, but he fully 
agreed with Mr. Thorp, that the line ought to be carried in 
the^direction of the full dip of the strata, as this would allow 
more strata to be intersected than any other direction. The 
line proposed by Mr. Morton and himself had this recom- 
mendation; and besides the Lancashire Society had fixed 
upon the same starting point, the tunnel of the Shefl^ield and 
