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ern sides ; in. some places its termination 
appearing above ground, but generally: 
covered with earth. As this termination 
is not by gradual diminution, but abrupt, 
and at once like a fracture, we cannot, 
from this circumstance, and from the 
corresponding inclination of the coal and 
limestone strata, avoid inferring, that 
the Same convulsion, which broke through 
and raised the strata of limestone into 
the ferm of mountains, must have also 
broken and raised the superincumbent 
strata, of which coal is one; and that 
these strata, being softer than the rock, 
were thrown off ; or, having been shat- 
tered, have long since been washed away 
by the floods, so that now no vestige re- 
mains of this convulsion upon the hills, 
but the solid ribs of limestone, which 
form the mountains, and which :have 
been able to resist the action of air and 
water. : 
It may.at first surprise, that the coal 
is mentioned as superincumbent en the 
lime; whereas the high mountains are 
formed from this stratum, and the coal is 
only found at greater or less depths 
inthe low grounds. But whoever wouid 
form just notions of the strata of any 
varied country, must keep in mind that 
valuable observation of Mr. Mitchell, 
in his paper upon Earthquakes, Phil. 
Trans. 1760; viz. that those mountains, 
which have been formed from tie dis- 
ruption and elevation of their component 
rock, as all mountains composed of lime- 
stone strata are, (which disruption or cle- 
vation he attributes to some violent ex- 
plosion or earthquake,) do actually con- 
sist of those strata, which in the plains 
are covered with many other incumbent 
strata, and, consequently, are originally 
the lowest of all we know. 
In the same manner as the coal rises, 
or crops up, to the sides of the great 
range of limestone mountains, so it also 
Memoir of Andrew Marvell, —- 
that near the village of Netherton. 
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follows the direction of the detached hills 
above-mentioned; viz. tWat on which 
the church at Wednesbury stands, and 
fa 
some intermediate place, between. the 
Limestone range and Wedwesbury, on 
the east side, and between that range 
and Netherton Hill, on the west side the 
coal lies nearly level, and from thence 
rises on both sides towards the respece 
tive hills. his position of the coals is 
called, by the colliers, a trough. It is 
proper to observe, that though the coal 
follows the direction of all the known 
limestone hills, and of the two detached 
hills above-mentioned (which 1 suspect 
are limestone elevations,*) it must not 
be supposed, that the coal follews the 
direction or inclination of the surface of 
the ground in general, the ordinary 
risings or fallingse \ 
(To be continued in our next. } 
* T suspect, from this correspondence of 
inclination uf the coal, and of Wednesbury and 
Netherton hills, that these hills are lime-~ 
stone elevations, although this stone does 
not appear en the surface, which it seems 
to have no correspondence with. How 
the coal is affected, with respect to the 
range of the Rowley or basaltic hills, has 
been fully ascertained, excepting that it does 
not crop out along the skirts of these hills, 
as it does along the limestone range, whence 
the calliers have formed their opinion, that 
it passes under and throuzh these hills. It is 
certainly to be found at the fout of them, on . 
both sides, at moderate depths, and does not 
there crop out. Therefore, we may suppose, 
that it passes a certain way further undee 
them; but whether it completely passes 
through, from side to side, without intere - 
ruption, is a question that cannot be with 
‘certainty ascertained, but which shall be 
considered more fully after the facts, respect- 
ing the coal and other strata, are related. . 
MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS, 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the LiFe of 
ANDREW MARVELL, memeber for 
KNIGSTON wpOn HULL, in several PsR-. 
LIAMENTS, drawn up from original 
Documents. 
-€€ But whether Fate, or Art, untwin’d his 
thread, ! 
Remains in doubt. Fame’s lasting Register, 
Shallleave hisngme enroll’d, as great as thoes, 
Who, at Philippi, for their country fell.” 
HE name of this accomplished man, 
and incorruptible citizen, still stands 
high in the estimation of the nation, and 
will continue to be respected, while 
public virtue can interest the feelings, or - 
private gratitude actuate the heart, ofan 
Engtishman., Few persons, however, are 
acquainted either with his merits, or his - 
history. It is not the fashion of the pre- 
sent day to make either curious, or ela- 
borate, enquiries respecting the orna- 
ments of an age, that has passed away ; 
and the biographical dictionaries of a for- 
mer period are filled with very inaccu- 
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