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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
in a pamphlet in 1729 (4to, 16 pp.), entitled, " Observations on the 
Different Strata of Earth and Minerals, more particularly such as are 
found in the Coal Mines of Great Britain." This is accompanied by 
a section of some coal-seams about ten miles south-west of Bath, which, 
on account of its early date, is reproduced herewith* It will be noticed 
that this section, printed nearly two centuries ago, clearly defines the 
S^etton fj/ Coal Miner in S o me rse I i h i re 
Strachey's Section of Coal, etc., near Bath. 1719, 
order and composition of the beds, their incUned position, their in- 
terruption by ridges (i.e., faults) ; and the occurrence above the coal- 
seams of freestone (Oolite), lias and red marl, lying horizontally upon 
and unconformably with the older beds. In his second paper the author 
states he had " never heard any coal was found to the west or south of 
Mendip-hills ; so Cotswold to the N.E., and the chalk hills of Marlbury 
Downs and Salisbury Plain, seem to set bounds to the coal country.'* 
The author concludes his paper with some weird and wonderful 
* It is taken from the reprint, being slightly different from that 
published in the FhU. Trans. See also Phil. Mag., Jan.. 1833, Plate 2. 
