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and it may be observed in the main range there are many and some 
very wide vacancies. It is more than probable that the boundaries 
of some of the detached coalfields may in particular places be enlarged, 
as I, nearly thirty years since, found two beds of coal and established 
a Colhery for the Earl of on that border of the Lancashire 
Coalfield which is nearest to Liverpool ; but it is the probabihty of 
filling up the vacancies in the main range of our Coal to which at present 
I wish to draw the attention of y^ Public. 
Thus beginning with the northernmost it is impossible for the Coal- 
fields of Scotland and Northumberland to be united, as they both range 
to seaward in the same range the southernmost workings of Coal in 
Durham are confidently expected to terminate. The recommencement 
of Coal workings in the centre of Yorkshire is, however, so far inland as 
to lead to an expectation that some of the coal ranging under an un- 
conformable cover and probably in a very circuitous course may be 
found and wrought, and on which I some time since gave an opinion to 
a gentleman at Whitby who published an extract therefrom in the Whit- 
by Miscellany. Now the Coals of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Notting- 
hamshire are so well connected as to be considered as one District 
which on account of its length and regular course has been called 
The Great Northern Run.'' Now the Southern. 
