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generally supposed to be found in the county. For these 
interesting journals of bores we are indebted to the kind- 
ness of Mr. Clarke, of the Middleton estate office. 
About a mile to the west of the railway at Blue Pits 
station, Mr. Livesey, Mining Engineer, in sinking the Captain 
Fold Pit, near Heywood, found the following beds at an 
elevation of about 400 feet. 
ft. 
Marl and Sand 6 
Loam 9 
Strong Marl 9 
Loam 1 
Sand 17 
Gravel 10 
Marl 72 
Broken Metals 
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A little further to the north of the last named locality, 
and at about the same elevation, Messrs. Roscow and Lord, 
in sinking, found at Greave : 
ft. in. 
Soil 1 0 
Loam and Sand 63 5 
Stony Marl 77 9 
Sandy Gravel 13 10 
156 0 
This information was kindly furnished by Mr. James 
Stott. 
Returning to the railway at Rochdale, few sections of the 
drift had been obtained near the town, where it must be of 
great thickness in the middle of the valley of the Roach, 
but at Mayfield in Butterworth, to the east of the line, at 
an elevation of about 500 feet, the following bore holes were 
made in the drift without reaching the underlying coal 
measures — 
