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Page Bills, Mr., of Cannock Chase colliery 171 Bilston Meadow, New Mine coal at 62 Bilston, outcrop of Thick coal at Bind coal and ironstone 53 Binds, description of 16 Bindstone ironstone (Chillington colliery) 55 Binney, Mr., on Stigmaria and Sigillaria 216, 217 Birch, John, of Brown Hills 170 Birch's coppice, Brown Hills, out-crop of coal at 170 Birch Hills colliery, Bottom coal at 60 Green rock at 130 New Mine coal at 60 Birchyfield colliery 43 Black ironstone, same as Gubhin 21,54 Black ring 54 Blackheath colliery, abortive sinking at 42, 63 possibility of Silurian at 81 Blackwell, Mr. J.K. 53, 151 Mr. S. H. 68, 69, 117, 132, 122 faults laid down by 210 Blactery 21, 55 Bloxwich, Heathen coal at 88 source of Tame river near 2 Blue flats ironstone 22, 77 slightly unconformable to Silurian limestone near Walsall 135 Blue stone, or cakes, ironstone 21, 51 Bolt hole 221 Boring at the Birches, near Rugeley 174 at Flaxley Common, near Brereton 174 uselessness of 90, 174 Botany Bay colliery, near Hednesford 104 Bottom benches (Thick coal) 21, 35 coal 20, 22, 24, 25, 69 open work in 72, 169 worked continuously from Bilston to Cannock Chase 87 stratification of, examined with reference to mode of deposit of coal 205 of Wyrley 92 at Essington 96 gubbin, or gubbin and balls 22 slipper (Thick coal) 21, 35 Boundary faults of coal-field, general description 142 detailed description 175 erroneously supposed to have been old cliffs 176 shown to be real dislocations 176 calculation of depth and place of coal outside impossible 176 eastern 177 near Oldbury 178 near Westbromwich 178 near Barr 179 between Hay Head and Lappal Tunnel, discussion of 179 splitting of, near Brown Hills 180 eastern, no Permian outside northern part of 180 near Brereton 180 near Beaudesert and Brown Hills 180 near Walsall Wood 181 Boundary fault, western 181 branches of, near Kings-winford 181 north of Stourbridge 181 near Oldswinford 181 near Himley and Sedgley 182 near Parkfield, violent fractures at 182 near Wolverhampton 182 from Wolverhampton to Cannock 182 splitting of, near Wedge's Mills 183 near Hednesford 183 probably more recent than lias 188 Bradley lodge 37 colliery 64 Lower, Getting rock at 69 Upper 66 Brand Hall, Permian conglomerate at 12 Brassils (Thick coal) 21, 35 Brereton collieries 105 Brewer, Mr., of Goscott 169 Brierley Hill, trough faults at 156 Broad earth or heath 21, 34, 111 Brockmoor fault 156 Bromley Hall colliery 32 Bromsgrove Lickey, height of 1 Brooch binds ironstone 32 coal 20, 31 of Wyrley 92 at Essington 96 Brooks, John, of Pelsall Heath 169 Brough, Mr. Lionel, one of H. M.'s Inspectors of Collieries 63 Brown Hills colliery 64 dip of beds at 102 general section of 23 New Mine, coal at 61 Brownstone ironstone 22, 55 Buddie, Mr., on "the Horse" Forest of Dean colliery 45 Bullock's Farm pits, Permian coal at 12 Bunter beds 3, 4, 5 Bushbury, Permian rocks near 183 Butty, or charter-master system 221 C. Cakes, ironstone 22,57 Canals, levels of 1 Cannel coal 23,92,95 Cannock Chase colliery 171 district 102 contains whole of Coal-measures 103 height of 2
