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On the authority of W. Haycock, the measures at the old Botany Bay colliery, just north-west of Hednesford Pool, were,—

		FT.	FT.
1.	Running sand	51	–
2.	Clod	29	–
3.	Coal	–	5
4.	Clod	20	–
5.	Coal	–	3
		180	8
		8
		188

The same person also gave me the following scraps of information:—

Section between Heathy Heys, Wimblebury, and Cooper's Lodge

	FT.	IN.
1.	Gravel	12	0
2.	Clod	90	0
3.	Cannel coal	1	4
4.	Clod	6	0
5.	Coal	4	0
		113	4

 

Section between Sugars Lodge and Lodge Barn in Beaudesert Old Park.

		FT.	IN.
1.	Waterclay	6	0
2.	Clod	60	0
3.	Coal	5	0
	Under which they bored down through many measures containing 9 coals	360	0
		431	0

He also told me that, at Noddyficld, near Mr. Cocking's house, there was the same section as at Hednesford, the seven- foot coal being 51 feet deep at Noddyfield, instead of 84, as at Hednesford. As Noddyfield is much higher ground than Hednesford, there must, if this information be correct, probably be a gentle westerly or north-westerly dip over all the intervening space.

I procured an old section from the late Mr. Figgins, of Brereton Heys, mine agent to the Marquis of Anglcsea, which was taken either at Noddyfield, or in the Old Park of Beaudesert, most probably the former. In either case it does not go greatly against W. Haycock's evidence, and in the latter tends to confirm it.

The following is an abstract of this section:—

		FT.	IN.	FT.	IN.
1.	From surface to the bottom of a coal of which the thickness is not stated	90	0	–
2.	Clunch, binds, fire-clay, rocks, &c, with three little nine-inch or foot coals intervening	70	6	–
3.	Coal			4	0
4.	Rock, binds, &c.	25	6	–
5.	Coal			2	0
6.	Fire-clay, binds, rock, clunch, &c.	39	0	–
7.	Coal			4	0
8.	Fire-clay	0	0	–
		225	0	10	0
		10	0
		235	0