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I had auotlier round with Hartop, at Mr. Wilson's, of Banks ; 
Morton was there, and it was after dinner, and we kept him in good 
humour. He says that there has been a lateral movement, as well as 
a vertical one, and that the bord and end of the coal has been moved 
round. I wish that you would be kind enough when in Leeds to ask 
Mr. Denny to let me have a boring below the Low Moor Coal, which 
he promised me. Perhaps you could write which is the Low Moor 
Coal in the boring, for I am ignorant of its range through Leeds 
town. What authority have you for your rock (at the top of the 
Middleton AVest Pit) being the Bradgate ; if Smith's map is the only 
one it is not to be relied upon, for he makes the Horbury Rock, 
which has the Haigh Moor Coal under it, the Bradgate ? I can point 
out twenty errors in his map. I am about to exchange borings with 
Mr. Briggs for the Glass Houghton and Fairburn ones, so as to com- 
plete a section to the Millstone grit North over Bramliam Moor. 
I believe in this line there is a great thinning away, but not further 
west. Please direct to me, under cover, to Rt. Hon. Lord Hawke, 
Womersley Park, Pontefract. P.S. — Can you get borings from 
Beeston to Royds. 
Excusing this trouble, Believe me. 
Very truly yours, 
Wm. Thorp. 
Further correspondence of a similar character took place, and 
Mr. Thorp was indefatigable in his iuvestigations ; he paid a visit to 
the Lancashire side of the hills, but does not appear to have gained 
so much information as he wished, the time at his disposal being too 
short to allow a detailed survey of the district to be made. 
On the 11th October following, a meeting of the council was 
held at the Museum, Wakefield, at which, along with other business, 
resolutions were adopted with regard to the proposed sections. The 
Rev. Samuel Sharp w\as in the chair. 
The secretary having read a letter from Mr. Binney, Secretary 
to the Manchester Geological and Polytechnic Society, expressing 
their readiness to co-operate wdtli this society in fixing scales for 
maps, plans, and sections, and in procuring a section across the 
Penine Chain. It was resolved — 
