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The Railway Station at Leeds, adjoining Hunslet-Lane, is 
calculated to be 40 or 50 yards above the " Black Bed" of Low 
Moor. It frequently has been bored to in this neighbourhood 
for the purpose of finding water. In the first cutting south 
of the Leeds station several beds of shale and sandstone 
appear ; and one bed of the latter, which comes to the sur- 
face near Jack-lane, affords stones and flags of very fair 
quality. Where the cutting enters Hunslet-moor, the " Bees- 
ton Coal" bassets out, and is of the usual thickness, namely, 
from five to six feet. This coal lies seventy or eighty yards 
above the 'Low oNIoor " Black Bed," which is here termed 
the " Royd's Coal." The " Beeston Coal" has been worked 
under the north part of Hunslet Moor, and in cutting this 
portion of the Railway, several old pits were discovered near 
the bridge opposite to Mr. Bower's glass works. 
The strata in this locality dip moderately towards the 
south-east. A short distance nearer the village of Hunslet 
the cutting is crossed by a Fault, running nearly East and 
West, which throws down the measures forty-five yards to the 
South, so that at the Silk Mill, near the road to Middleton, 
the Beeston Coal" is seventy yards deep. 
In the Woodhouse Hill Cutting the " Middleton Main 
Coal" is seen near the Jeffrey Lane Bridge ; and its appear- 
ance here is caused bv a downcast Throw to the South-east of 
thirty-five yards. A little further on there is another Throw 
down of about forty yards in the same direction, which de- 
presses the " Middleton Main Coal ;" and a thick bed of 
sandstone now occupies the principal part of the Cutting, 
which is fifteen or sixteen yards above the Middleton Yard 
Coal." 
Near the southern end of this excavation a third Fault 
occurs, which elevates the strata about thirty yards. Two 
of these Faults have been met with in Middleton Colliery, 
and may be seen in the road near Belle Isle, where the Mid- 
