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smith purposes, and has an average specific gravity of 1*23 to 1'29. 
This property consists of 1,500 acres, and the coal is brought to 
the surface by an adit or tunnel, near the entrance of which 
there is a stationary engine, which draws the coal in the miner’s 
skips from tlie far end of the workings up a slight incline, and 
tips the coal into waggons waiting there to receive it. The coal 
is very regular in its thickness and quality, lies very fiat, dipping 
about I in 30 to tlie south. A large quantity of coke is made 
here Irom tlie small coal by ovens erected close to the mine, 
wliieh is equal to any made in England or elsewhere. The coal 
sent away from this colliery in 1871 amounted to 110,099 tons, 
valued at £91,082, and the average daily number of men and 
boys employed was 333. 
James Fletcher, Esq., is the Colliery Manager. 
Grej post. 
Blue shale, with Glossopteris, Sphenop* 
tcris, aud Phjllotheca, &c. 
Coal 
Indurated claj 
Goal 
Brassy coal ... 
Coal 
Stone band 
Coal 
stone Tjand , 
Coal 
Band ’* 
Coal 
Coarse coal 
Coal 
ft. in. 
1 2 
0 Oi 
1 0 
0 4 
0 7 
0 Oi 
1 5 
0 
n 3 
u oi 
1 5 
0 2 
1 0 
Coarse coal, full of bauds 0 11^ 
Total thickness ... 8 51 
l liis IS a section of the seam of coal at the Newcastle Wallsend 
Lqlhery Company s C Pit, where it averages 8 feet 5 inches iu 
thickness 7 feet G mches of which is worked. (See section 
loitered B, section No. 8, aud F, on plan No 1 ) 
