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SECTIONS TO CONNECT THE LANCASHIRE 
lines. The Barnsley line would possess the advantage of having the 
millstone grit and flagstone strata beautifully illustrated by the great 
tunnel sinkings and cuttings on the railway near Penistone. The 
Wortley and Bradgate rocks, containing the valuable and important 
beds of coal known by the names of the Flockton, Parkgate, and 
Silkstone beds, with their associated strata of iron-stone, would be 
clearly exhibited b}^ the sinkings in Mr. "Wilson's Pits, near Darton, 
which are the deepest in the county. The Woolley Edge rocks, 
containing the thick Barnsley coal and other seams, would be not 
less distinctly illustrated by the borings and sinkings of the same 
gentleman near Staincross. Further eastward the Chevet and Ack- 
worth rocks would be delineated by borings already in possession of 
members of the society, and the magnesian limestone by borings made 
near Womersley, under the immediate inspection of the Rev. W. 
Thorp, at Swinefleet, the section would pass the very deep borehole 
recently made by Messrs. EgTemont and Company through the new 
red sandstone and its associated beds of gypsum, and across the 
the Cave and Holderness districts ; considerable geological information 
may be gained by examining the county with the writings of Prof. 
Phillips and Mr. Harcourt for guide books. Mr. Morton further 
stated that the Barnsley line, if continued Avestwards, would cross 
Lancashire in a more advantageous locality for investigating and 
illustrating that coal-field than either of the other lines, and he 
concluded his report by reading an extract from a letter written by 
Mr. Greenough, on the subject of these sections, wherein he recom- 
mends the adoption of the Barnsley line, but advises the society to 
confine its attention solely to the coal measures, and deprecates the 
extension of this, or any other section across the New Red Sandstone, 
Oolite and Chalk districts of the East Riding. 
Mr. E. W. Binney expressed his opinion that the scale of the 
sections proposed in the report would not answer the purpose, 
especially on the Lancashire side of the ridge. To attempt to display 
the Lancashire Coal-field in a section of three inches to the mile, 
would be futile indeed. In the rich part of the Coal-field, about 
Ashton and Dukinfield, they would have forty-five seams of coal 
within about a mile and a half. With regard to the particular line 
