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Rh This section evidently passes through the same measures as those which are now being worked near Brereton, about three miles to the northward.

The Brereton Collieries.—Of the pits in the Brereton colliery district I have had sections supplied to me by Mr. George, of Bentley; Mr. Vernon Poole, of Brereton, Lord Talbot's agent; and by the late Mr. Figgins. These sections are so nearly identical that they seem all to have come from the same source, and to apply equally to all the Brereton district. The section now engraved in Vertical Sections, Sheet 16, No. 1, will give the details, but I add here an abstract:—

Brereton Section.

(See Vertical Sections, sheet 16, No. 1.)

Below the fifteenth coal they sank some distance in red measures.

It will be at once seen from the inspection of this section that it is not possible, from the mere thickness and relative position of its beds, to