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70 Outside of those limits, however, the variations in the character of the Bottom coal are many and sometimes come in suddenly. Even within those limits we have the following sections:—

These three places lie in a straight line about one mile in length, and running nearly west-north-west and east-south-east.

About a mile south of Bilston, at Highfields and Bradley, the Bottom coal is only 3 or 4 feet thick. At Tipton Moat Colliery it is 9 ft. 6 in., from which 2 ft. 6 in. must be deducted for three "parting batts;" at Tipton Green there is said to be "coal and batt," 11 ft. 9 in.; and at the Foxyards, 9 or 10 feet of coal. Farther south, however, at Coneygree and Dudley Port, the Bottom coal, if it exist at all, is not more than a foot or so in thickness.

At Shaver's End, just north of Dudley, the following was the section in a trial pit of Lord Ward's:—