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Rh 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:—

(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:—