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EXPiLANAa'lON OF Pt,ATE 66, 
the Coal fields of the northern and central parts 
of England shall be exhausted * 
Fig. 3. Section of inclined Carboniferous strata, over- 
laid unconforniably by horizontal strata of New 
Red Sandstone, Lias, and Oolite, in Somersetshire. 
This Section illustrates the manner in which Car- 
boniferous strata have been elevated at their extre- 
mities around the circumference of a basin, and 
depressed towards its centre, and also intersected 
by fractures or Faults. See V. 1. pp. 527, 542. 
In Section 1, 2, of this Plate, no notice is taken 
of the Faults which intersect the Coal basins. 
Plate 66. V. I. p. 527, Note. 
Fig. 1. Section of tlie strata composing the Silurian 
System, and the lower part of the Carboniferous 
System, on the frontiers of England and Wales. 
(Murchison.) 
Fig. 2, Appearance of Faults intersecting the Coal for- . 
mation near Nevvcastle-on-Tyne, copied from a 
portion of one of Mr. Buddie’s important sections 
of the Newcastle Coal field, in the Transactions of 
the Nat. Hist. Society of Northumberland, V. I, 
1 1. 3, PI. XXL XXII. XXIII.T The advantages 
• Tlie lower and richest beds of this Coal district are not only 
raised to the surface, and rendered easily accessible around the ex- 
ternal margin of the basin, but are also brought within reach in 
comsequence of another important elevation, along an anticlinal line, 
running nearly E. and W. through a considerable portion of the 
inteiior of the basin, in the direction of its longer diameter. 
t I feel it a public duty to make known an act of Mr. Buddie, 
which will entitle him to the gratitude of posterity, and has set an 
example, which, if generally followed in all extensive collieries, will 
save the lives of thousands of unfortunate miners, that must other- 
wise perish for want of information which can, at this time, be easily 
recorded for their preservation. This eminent Engineer and Coal 
Viewer has presented to the Natural History Society of Newcastle, 
