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					FT.	IN.		FT.	IN
85.	Strong dark ground				6	0	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	57	3
86.	Peldon				1	0
87.	Parting				0	8
88.	Strong dark batt				4	0
89.	Parting				0	6
90.	Strong dark batt				6	4
91.	Light binds				31	9
92.	Rock				7	0
93.	Brooch Coal (of Wyrley)				2	2	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	6	3
94.	Dark ground				3	6
95.	Coal ( ? Benches of "Wyrley)				0	7
96.	Light binds				20	5	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	73	10
97.	Strong rock				7	0
98.	Coal (not known at Wyrley)				2	0
99.	Parting				1	3
100.	Strong light binds				19	2
101.	Ditto with ironstone				20	3
102.	Light binds				3	9
103	Bottom Coal of Wyrley		$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Coal	5	6	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	8	7
				Parting	0	7
				Coal	2	6
104.	Various measures							38	0
105.	Four Foot Coal							4	0
								589	0

(Vertical Sections, sheet 26, No. 38).

The following are the abstracts of some other Wyrley sections :—

Section at Longhouse.

		FT.	IN.	FT.	IN.
1.	Red sandy rotch, perhaps part of New Red sandstone	35	6	–
2.	Alternations of clunch, grey rock, and black batt	101	0	–
3.	Coal and batt			1	9
4.	Rock and clunch	10	0	–
5.	Coals and partings, principally batts			5	10
6.	Dark clunch	1	11	–
7.	Coal			2	0
8.	Fire-clay, clunch, and rock	74	0	–
9.	Coal (Old Robins coal)			6	6
10.	Various measures	84	0	–
11.	Coal (probably the Charles coal)			3	0
12.	Various measures	54	0	–
13.	Coal (Cannel coal)			3	6
14.	Various measures	81	0	–
15.	Coal (Brooch and Benches)			7
16.	Various measures	48	0	–
17.	Coal (called Bottom coal) [1]			7	0
		489	5	36	7
		36	7
		526	0

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1. In several parts of the Wyrley field there is in the Bottom (or Deep) coal what is known to the colliers as the Middle batt or parting. This is always found, but