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ences to shaft sinkings and borings : and the Suh-comniittee 
would here venture to recommend that persons connected 
with, or interested in mining operations, should accurately 
register the nature and thickness of the strata sunk or bored 
through in their respective works. 
In the Methley Cutting, near to the York Junction, a bed 
of Coal, covered with shale and rock, appears, which probably 
corresponds with one of the Coal seams in the Whitwood 
borintTTS. In this Cuttinf? there is also a Throw down to the 
south, but its extent has not yet been ascertained. 
The Railway here crosses the river Calder, and soon 
afterwards enters the excavation near Normanton, which is 
one of considerable interest, because of the dislocations cut 
through, and the alternation of Bind and Sandstone beds here 
exhibited. Sudden and unaccountable changes from Sand- 
stone to Bind, and vice versa, are often observed in sinkings 
near to each other; but in this Cutting the passage from one 
to the other is distinctly seen. In the first part of the ex- 
cavation the strata rise rapidly to the South, until we reach 
the road leading from Normanton to Newland, where a Fault 
occurs, which reverses their position, causing them to dip to 
the South. In the Northern portion of the Cutting beds of 
Bind predominate ; but these gradually disappear and are 
replaced by blue Sandstone in the southern portion. Farther 
on, two dislocations are seen near to each other : the first is 
a Throw down to the South, and the second a Throw up, 
' At the entrance of the Oakenshaw cutting, near Goose- 
hill, three beds of Coal present themselves, rising rapidly to 
t the Southward. They are supposed to be the same as the 
I Sharleston beds. Farther South, strata of hard white Sand- 
I stone emerge from beneath the last-mentioned coal seams. 
These Sandstones (which have afforded most excellent build- 
e ing materials for the bridges, station houses, and other 
I erections, connected with the railway,) continue along the 
