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108 The following more detailed section of these beds has been furnished by Mr. Beckett, of Wolverhampton, who procured it from Mr. B. R. Smith, of Walsall:—

At Hobbs Hole, a little east of Darlaston, the Silurian rocks lying below the Coal-measures have the following composition, according to the information of Mr. Smallman:—

In this neighbourhood (Walsall) the Dudley limestone crops out at a gentle angle, and the lower shale rises from underneath it, spreading out to the east over a tract nearly 2 miles in width, till another band, known as the Barr limestone, rises to the surface at Hay Head, near Great Barr. There is but little to be seen in