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			Average thickness.
			FT.	IN.
20.	(X.)	Cannel coal, 3 ft. 8 in. E.; 4 ft. W.	3	11
21.	Intermediate, 60 ft. E.; 54 ft. to 84 ft. W.		71	0
22.	(XI.)	Wyrley Brooch coal, 2ft. E.; 3 ft. 8 in. to 4 ft. W.	3	4
23.	Intermediate, 3 ft. 6 in. E.; 1 ft. to 1 ft. 6 in. W.		1	8
24.	(XII.)	Benches coal, 7 in. E.; 2 ft. to 2 ft. 4 in. W.	2	0
25.	Intermediate, with a 2 ft. coal, 74 E.; 40 to 48 ft. W.		54	0
26.	(XIII.)	[1] Wyrley Bottom or Eight-foot, Bentley Old Man's coal; 8 ft. 6 in. with partings E.; 6 ft. to 8 ft. W.; 9 ft. 10 in. B.	8	1
27.	Intermediate, 38 ft. E.; 39 ft. to 46 ft. W.; 45 ft. to 61 ft. B.		46	0
28.	(XXV.)	[2] Essington Four-foot, or Bentley Hay coal, 4 ft. E.; 3 ft. W.; 5 ft. sometimes expanded by shale to 1 1 ft. B.	4	0
29.	Intermediate, 51 ft. to 63 ft B.		54	0
30.	(XV.)	Heathen coal, 1 ft. 8 in. to 3 ft. B.; 2 ft. 6 in. P.	2	0
31.	Intermediate, 44 ft. to 56 ft. B.; 61 ft. P.		50	0
32.	(XVI.)	Sulphur coal, 1 ft. 6 in. to 4 ft. B.	1	9
33.	Intermediate, 21 ft. to 52 ft. B.; 32 ft. to 52 ft. P.		43	0
34.	(XVII.)	Yard coal of Pelsall, 3 ft. to 3 ft. 6 in. B.; 2 ft. 9 in. to 3 ft. 8 in. P.	3	2
35.	Intermediate, 31 ft. to 46 ft. B.; 26 ft. to 50 ft. P.		40	0
36.	(XVIII.)	Bass coal of Pelsall, 4 ft. to 6 ft. B.; 3 ft. to 6 ft. P.	5	10
37.	Intermediate, 21 ft. to 35 ft. B.; 29 ft. to 39 ft. P.		31	0
38.	(XIX.)	Fireclay or Cinder coal, 3 ft. 10 in. to 6 ft. 8 in. B.; 3 ft. 2 in. to 5 ft. P.	4	6
39.	Intermediate, 21 ft. to 46 ft. B.; 21 ft. to 49 ft. P.		33	0
40.	(XX.)	Upper part of Bottom coal, or Shallow coal, 2 ft. to 7 ft. 9 in. B.; 4 ft. to 7 ft. P.	5	4
41.	Intermediate, 8 in. to 8 ft. B.;[3] 38 ft. to 51 ft. P. (average of latter)		46	0
42.	(XXI.)	Lower part of Bottom, or Deep coal, 2 ft. 9 in. to 4 ft. 8 in. B.; 5 ft. to 15 ft. P.[4]	6	8
43.	Measures between the Bottom coal and the Silurian shale, 137 ft. B.		137	0
			1,053	0

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1. This, which is the lowest coal hitherto worked at Wyriey, is the uppermost coal of all in the Bentley district, only coming into the ground, here and there, when the lower beds dip deep enough to allow it to do so.
2. This coal has been sunk into at Essington, and has also been twice reached, once by boring, and another time by sinking, near Wyrley, where it was found to be only 3 feet thick. The finding of this coal there at the proper distance below the so-called Bottom coal of Wyrley lends a strong support to the identification of that coal with the Old Man's coal of Bentley.
3. In the Bentley district the Bottom coal is still looked upon and worked as one seam, even when the central parting is several feet thick. It is only N.E. of Goscott that the two parts become so widely separated that they are worked as two beds under the names of the Shallow and the Deep coal. Between Bentley and Goscott the Bottom coal is in one place even called the Thick coal, being the thickest bed known thereabouts.
4. Where the Deep coal thickens to 12 or 15 feet it is in consequence of a considerable parting separating the bottom part of it from the rest. It is probable that further north this separation will become so considerable that the coals will be separately gotten and receive separate names.

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