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104 On the authority of W. Haycock, the measures at the old Botany Bay colliery, just north-west of Hednesford Pool, were,—

The same person also gave me the following scraps of information:—

He also told me that, at Noddyficld, near Mr. Cocking's house, there was the same section as at Hednesford, the seven- foot coal being 51 feet deep at Noddyfield, instead of 84, as at Hednesford. As Noddyfield is much higher ground than Hednesford, there must, if this information be correct, probably be a gentle westerly or north-westerly dip over all the intervening space.

I procured an old section from the late Mr. Figgins, of Brereton Heys, mine agent to the Marquis of Anglcsea, which was taken either at Noddyfield, or in the Old Park of Beaudesert, most probably the former. In either case it does not go greatly against W. Haycock's evidence, and in the latter tends to confirm it.

The following is an abstract of this section:—