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Rh measures. The section here is of a totally different character from that near Wolverhampton, as may be seen by the following examples:—

(See Vertical Sections, sheets 16 and 26, Nos.nb6, 40, and 45.)

(See Vertical Sections, sheet 16, No. 7.)

Going still farther north, again, the ironstones seem to be rapidly dying out and disappearing. At Dudley Brothers colliery, for instance, about half a mile west of Bloxwich, although these measure were still recognizable, they contained so little ironstone as not to be worth working ; while around Pelsall they sank at one place 150 feet below the Bottom coal without finding either coal or ironstone, till at that