This section evidently passes through the same measures as those which are now being worked near Brereton, about three miles to the northward.
The Brereton Collieries.—Of the pits in the Brereton colliery district I have had sections supplied to me by Mr. George, of Bentley; Mr. Vernon Poole, of Brereton, Lord Talbot's agent; and by the late Mr. Figgins. These sections are so nearly identical that they seem all to have come from the same source, and to apply equally to all the Brereton district. The section now engraved in Vertical Sections, Sheet 16, No. 1, will give the details, but I add here an abstract:—
Brereton Section.
| FT. | IN. | FT. | IN | ||
| 1. | Red and white gravel (part of the New red sandstone conglomerate) | 80 | 0 | – | |
| 2. | Red and yellow marl, rock, clod, and batt | 16 | 6 | – | |
| 3. | First coal | 4 | 6 | ||
| 4. | Clod with ironstone | 19 | 10 | – | |
| 5. | Second coal | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6. | Clod and rock | 51 | 3 | – | |
| 7. | Third coal | 2 | 0 | ||
| 8. | Fire-clay and clod | 13 | 0 | – | |
| 9. | Fourth coal | 4 | 0 | ||
| 10. | Rock clod and ironstone | 30 | 1 | – | |
| 11. | Fifth coal | 4 | 0 | ||
| 12. | Fire-clay | 3 | 0 | – | |
| 13. | Sixth coa | 0 | 4 | ||
| 14. | Rock with ironstone | 14 | 8 | – | |
| 15. | Seventh Coal | 2 | 3 | ||
| 16. | Rock with ironstone, and clod and batt | 36 | 0 | – | |
| 17. | Eighth coal | 4 | 0 | ||
| 18. | Batt, clod, and light rock and clod. | 50 | 0 | – | |
| 19. | Ninth coal | 0 | 6 | ||
| 20. | Clod,&c. | 6 | 0 | – | |
| 21. | Tenth coal | 3 | 3 | ||
| 22. | Rock | 13 | 4 | – | |
| 23. | Eleventh coal | 1 | 0 | ||
| 24. | Clod, rock, and ironstone, &c. | 22 | 10 | – | |
| 25. | Twelfth coal | 9 | 0 | ||
| 26. | Rock, binds, and ironstone | 48 | 7 | – | |
| 27. | Coal, not enumerated | 2 | 0 | ||
| 28. | Binds with ironstone | 21 | 7 | – | |
| 29. | Thirteenth coal | 5 | 0 | ||
| 30. | Fire clay and clod | 24 | 0 | – | |
| 31. | Fourteenth coal | 1 | 0 | ||
| 32. | Rock, clod, and ironstone | 105 | 8 | – | |
| 33. | Fifteenth coal | 4 | 3 | ||
| 556 | 4 | 49 | 7 | ||
| 49 | 7 | ||||
| 605 | 11 | ||||
(See Vertical Sections, sheet 16, No. 1.)
Below the fifteenth coal they sank some distance in red measures.
It will be at once seen from the inspection of this section that it is not possible, from the mere thickness and relative position of its beds, to
