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texture, and it seems to be intermediate between common and cannel coal.

These varieties are not found to occupy separate and peculiar seams of the coal formation, but alternate irregularly with one another, as layers of the same bed.

At Wylam they are met with in the following order.

					Feet	In		Feet	In.
At	6	fathoms	High main	Fine split	4	11	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \\\\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$	5	7
				Stone based		3½
				Clean coal		2
				Coarse Coal		2¾

	26		Five quarter	Splint	2	5½	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\end{matrix}}\right\}$	3	4½
				Clean coal	2	11	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\end{matrix}}\right\}$	3	4½

	32		Six quarter	Clean coal	2	9	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$	3	4
				Splint		2½
				Coarse coal		4½

	38		Yard coal	Slaty band		3½	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \\\\\ \\\end{matrix}}\right\}$	1	2
				Free coal		7
				Coarse coal		3½

			Horsley Wood seam	Clean coal		2½	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$		11½
				Splint		9	$\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}$		11½

Splint coal is also found at Throckley, Kenton, and some of the Lambton collieries situated on the Wear. Coarse coal occurs at Cockfield and many other places. These two varieties, containing little bitumen and less sulphur, are used in iron foundries, potteries, &c.; and splint serves as a material for building cottages and outhouses in the neighbourhood of Throckley Fell.

Potter's clay is found immediately below the vegetable soil. Its colour is blueish or smoke grey, and sometimes yellow approaching to orange, in consequence of a mixture of iron ochre. It is used in the manufacture of coarse earthenware, bricks, and tiles.