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WILLIAM SMITH I HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
" Flat ropes were in use, and at Hisley Wood or White-lane 
Colliery, on Earl Fitz^villiam's estate, I stood on one end of a 
cross-bar to whicli corves were suspended, and Mr. Perkins on the 
other, and we were very smoothly let down a little more than 
mid-depth of the pit to see Mr. Cur's, so-called, sliding-rods ; when, 
MEMOIRS 
OP 
WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., 
AUTHOR OF THE 
MAP OF THE STRATA OF ENGLAND AND WALES 
ev 
HIS NEPHEW AND PUPIL, 
JOHN PHILLIPS,' F.R.S., F.G S , 
PBornsoB or geology and mi.nebalogv in the ukiversitv 0/ 
DUaLIN, , 
AUTHOR OF " ILLUSTRATIONS Of THE OEOLOCY OP YOKKSHIBt 
Qua: Ie(»:iivj<., i|>M ea nostra 
LONDON : 
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 
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Reduced fac-simile of the title-page of Phillips's Memoirs. 
on being stationary and directed to look up, we saw the ascending 
corves over our head without knowing that they had passed us at 
the mid-depth enlargement of the pit. 
" On reversing the motion of the engine we were soon again on 
the surface, and simply and easily as this seemed to be effected by 
