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SECTIONS TO CONNECT THE LANCASHIRE 
sight of the original object, for, if continued westwards to the 
summit of the Penine Chain it would connect a similar line of 
section on the eastern side, and thus connect the Yorkshire with the 
Lancashire Coal-field ; they further considered it advisable to confine 
the attention of the society exclusively to that part of the section 
which traverses the coal measures, without regard to the Magnesian 
Limestone and Red Marl deposits that lie further to the east, in 
the hope that by concentration of the society's energies to one portion 
only, they would more speedily and more accurately carry out the 
fundamental object of the society, namely, the thorough examination 
and elucidation of the Yorkshire Coal-field. 
The following is an outline of the direction which it was now 
proposed that the sections should take : — 
" The line of section proposed by me commences in Nortliowram 
on the flagstone, wherein lie the Halifax hard and soft bed of coal. 
It then crosses a district of table land, composed of flagstone, to the 
most westerly escarpment of the Wortley Rock, in which are deposited 
a bed of first rate Furnace Coal, the Low Moor Better Bed, and a 
Coal accompanied by an excellent black ironstone, the Low Moor 
Black Bed. Passing south of Norwood Green, where coals are 
worked by Sir George Armytage's lessee and others, the line reaches 
Bailiff Bridge, where a great dislocation down to the west occurs, 
running parallel with the valley that extends from Brighouse to Low 
Moor. The bold cliff of Clifton is next mounted, and the line pro- 
ceeds by Woolrow, and crosses the Leeds and EUand turnpike road, 
about half way between the village of Clifton and the Pack Horse. 
The Low Moor Black Bed and Better Bed underlie this town- 
ship, and an accurate knowledge of them may be obtained from the 
colliery workings of Mr. Walker, and from borings which have recently 
been made near the line of section. The levels in this part range a 
few degrees East of North. Entering the township of Hartshead the 
line traverses three quarters of a mile of unexplored ground, in which 
the marked lines of springs, and other circumstances, indicate con- 
siderable dislocations at right angles with each other. The site of 
Hartshead Colliery is next crossed. Here the Blocking Coal is 
worked, and a large dislocation runs almost due North and South. 
