EXPLANATION OF PLATES 64. 65. 103 
fig. 17. Side view of another tubercle of the same 
species, (Jaquin. Frag. Bot. PI. 14.) 
Plate 64. V. I. jd. 517. 
tig. 1. Fossil leaf of a Flabelliform Palm from the Gyp- 
sum of Aix in Provence. (Brongniart.) 
fig. 2. Upper portion of the Fossil trunk of a tree 
allied to Palms (nearly four feet in diameter), from 
the Calcaire Grossier at Vaillet, near Soissons, pre- 
served in the Museum d’Hist. Nat. at Paris. See 
p. 516, Note. (Brongniart.) 
Plate 65. V, I. p, 529. 
fig. 1. Section across the Wednesbury Coal basin from 
Dudley to Walsall, (Jukes.) 
The extensive Iron foundries which cover the 
surface of this district, and the greater part of the 
manufactures in the adjacent town of Birmingham, 
originate in the Coal and Iron ore, with which the 
strata of shale in this Coal basin are richly loaded. 
The Dudley Limestone, here -found immediately 
below the Coal formation, occurs usually at a much 
greater depth in the series. The Mountain Lime- 
stone, Old red Sandstone, and Ludlow rocks, are 
here wanting. (See PI. 66, Fig, 1.) 
fig. 2. Section, shewing the basin-shaped disposition of 
tlie Carboniferous strata in S. Wales. (Rev. W. 
D. Conybeare.) 
The richest beds of Coal and Iron ore are placed 
almost immediately above the Mountain limestone. 
(See pp. 65, 529.) It is to this district that our 
Posterity must look for their future supply of Coals, 
and transfer the site of their Manufactures, when 
