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section in the Park Grate coal ; 3rd, by one of the flagstone ; 
4th, by that of the Grannister and Pecten coal ; 5th, by one 
of the Thick coal. If any single one of these sections be 
correct, it would be sufficient to prove that there exists a 
trough or basin ; but I have produced seven sections shew- 
ing a rise to the South in seven different localities, and five 
shewing a rise to the North ; and j'et Mr. Hartop, withont 
attempting to disprove the correctness of any one section, 
contents himself by asserting that he thinks there is no inti- 
mation of anything of the kind I Mr. Hartop is also in 
error when speaking of the Thick coal as at Handsworth and 
Elsecar. The North and South magnetic line from Elsecar 
reaches Orgreave by Lord Fitzwilliam's large map, and the 
coal at these two points is nearly at the same elevation above 
the sea, or any other fixed point ; but the water levels of 
Handsworth, as now worked, range N. 25 W., and point to 
the Flagstone at Grenoside, as proved by Mr. W. Jelfcock and 
himself (Mr. T.,) and if prolonged, would ultimately go in 
that direction West of all coal beds in Yorkshire. And to 
suppose the Thick coal continued in its usual course from 
Handsworth, where it is irregular and disturbed, laying near 
the bottom of the trough, is as absurd as to suppose it con- 
tinued from Keppel's column to Elsecar, where it once stood 
at the former place 300 yards above the present Park Gate 
coal, and should therefore be 300 yards higher at Elsecar 
than as at present existing. In fine, the whole phenomena 
of this system of disturbances had been so ably described by 
Mr. Morton, who is perfectly acquainted vdth the country 
(with one slight exception, which he should mention, viz., 
that there is no general rise entirely to Leeds, as proved by 
the Silkstone and Barnsley levels ; and that Billingley is not 
in the bottom of the trough, for the coal there rises S. end 
5i inches per yard,) that he should say no more upon the 
subject. 
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