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way affords entrance into his Grace's famous coal mines, the other on the right an exit from them. Supplying ourselves with a flat-bottomed boat, and accompanied by the overseer, we floated into the former, and found ourselves in a subterraneous passage partly hewn out of the rock, and partly brie ked, a 1 out six feet wide, and five in height from the surface of the water. Along this we proceeded between hair and five miles in a direct I me, passing numerous veins of coals, in the order and of the thickness following: At the distance of one thou- sand yards from the entrance we tir.i], ist, the four feet mine; 2dly, at twenty yards further, a vein one foot thick; ^div, further on three hun- dred yards, a four foot vein; athly, further on for half a mile, one three quarters or a yard thick; 5thly, further on twenty yards, another three quarters of a yard thick; 6thly, at three hundred yards, the Bin coal five feet thick; /thly, at one hundred and fifty yards, the Grumm.ock coal three feet thick; Stilly, at eighty yards, Brassy coal five feet thick; oahiy, at one hundred and twenty yards', eight foot coal, the richest vein; i cthly, three hundred yards, five feet vein; i tthly, at oik- hun- dred, Crummock coal again; I2th!y, at one hun- dred yards, Brassy coal agam; *;lh!\, at ten yards, a fine vein of seven feet; i.-thiy, at live

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