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SECTIONS TO CONNECT THE LANCASHIRE 
At 7-30 the party was conveyed in a special train from the station 
of the company, and stopped first at at the Altofts Cutting, the 
section exposed therein was minutely examined, and the party again 
steamed along, Derby was reached in time to dine and leave at 5 
p.m. to return to Leeds, which place was reached at 9 p.m. Mr. 
Swanwick furnished the members with copies of the sections which 
had been seen during the day. The Rev. "VV. Thorp, Messrs. Morton, 
Holt, Embleton ,and Wilson were requested to prepare a report of 
the excursion, and on September 7th, they met at the house of Mr. 
Embleton, and drew up a report covering the ground between Leeds 
and Rotherham. Some of the sections were revisited on foot to 
make sure of the sections, and the report as full and correct as possible. 
On the 2nd December, at a meeting held at Doncaster, the 
report was presented. It is stated that unfortunately some portions 
of the line had become grown over or covered with soil before the 
excursion was made, and a second cause of incompleteness was that 
the railway passes through certain districts of which geologically, 
scarcely anything at that time was known. The terminus was then 
adjoining Hunslet Lane in Leeds ; the surface being forty or fifty 
yards above the Black Bed Coal of Low Moor. The strata dip 
moderately towards the south east. The cutting in Hunslet Moor 
exhibits the Beeston Coal five or six feet in thickness. It is seventy 
or eighty yards above the Black Bed. Tlie Beeston Coal had been 
previously worked, and in cutting this part of the railway several old 
pits were discovered ; nearer the village of Hunslet a fault throws 
the Beeston Coal to a depth of forty-five yards beneath its normal 
position. In the AYoodhouse Hill cutting the Middleton Main Coal 
is seen near Jeffery Bridge, a couple of faults depress this coal res- 
pectively thirty-five and forty yards, and a thick bed of sandstone 
occupies the principal part of the cutting. A third fault near the 
south end of the cutting re-elevates the strata about thirty yards. 
Two of these faults were observed at the Middleton Colheries, and 
the Middleton Rock was shown to be identical with the rock exposed 
in the cutting. Similar beds occur in the TVoodlesford Cutting until 
they are cut off by a fault near the bridge ; from this point the sides 
of the excavation are entirely sandstone. In the Methley Cutting a 
