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at any locality further north. It was undertaken by the Rev. Baily Williams, whose enterprise has been deservedly rewarded by the discovery of several good coals and some ironstone below them. This pit is called No. 1. of the Coppy Hall colliery, and is situated just over the "o" of " Stubbock's Green," as engraved on the Ordnance map. The following is an abstract of the measures passed through, communicated by Mr. Roberts, the mine agent, of Walsall:—

Section of Coppy Hall Colliery

		FT.	IN.	FT.	IN.
1.	Red clay and marl, &c.	218	0	–
2.	Green and red shales interstratified with dark grey and black measures	37	0	–
3.	Coal			1	0
4.	Fire-clay, binds, &c, with one or two small coals	140	6	–
5.	Coal, four small coals with partings			12	8
6.	Fire-clay, binds, &c. with ironstone balls	92	8	–
7.	Coal, with batt			2	3
8.	Binds, with ironstone, rock, &c.	33	7	–
9.	Coal			7	6
10.	Binds, with ironstone	11	0	–
11.	Coal			1	0
12.	Binds, with ironstone, &c.	12	10	–
13.	Coal			4	0
14.	Shales and binds, with ironstone	18	0	–
		562	7	28	5
		28	5
		591	0

(See Vertical Sections, sheet 26, No. 44.)

There was a trial pit sunk about ten years ago, a little more than a mile to the southward of the Coppy Hall colliery, a little north of the Red House near Aldridge. As the measures hereabouts all dip to the north, or a little cast of north, at an angle of 30°, the beds, which lie deep at Coppy Hall colliery ought, if there be no fault between the two places and the increase of dip take place gradually, to crop out at or about the Aldridge trial pit.

The following is an abstract of the section of that pit, which was published by Mr. Roberts in the year 1849:—

Abstract of the Measures passed through in the Aldridge Trial Pit.

		FT.	IN.	FT.	IN.
1.	Upper measures	55	0	–
2.	Coal and batt			2	9
3.	Fire-clay and clod	18	3	–
4.	Coal and batt			1	9
5.	Fire-clay, clod, and binds	10	9	–
6.	Coal and batt			4	6
7.	Fire-clay, binds, &c.	86	6	–
8.	Coal and batt			3	6
9.	Fire clay, &c, with small ironstone	31	7	–
10.	Coal with parting			7