MOCPIINAatiAr( D AF] ame occupation are bound to fetch him

RSS eth ande e alari hurial af E iC Carth, and tO DINE nInm tO ChIrliituan burial at their

x z I haroec altr RS Fa EEES E OWn C ts anc Car CS a1tnougn NC DE-TOX 24 iatnome under| 1 7| S E t0 fl TNE eartn, aS heretofore ha 91 been Nn GONe, and Que COÏ Oner, Or 5 NII QA aA E nat have tc 1 him in any(0 CET2AL Lai 3 Nail no Nave o d O WI UI 1 any

COAL.(onjé

“This diſtri abounds with coal, and with relpedt to this

article is reducible to the ſeparate diviſions: of Northern and E Southern. The former, including the pariſhes of High- 2 Littleton, Timſbury, Paulton,(with Clutton and Sutton E: adjoining to the weſt, and Camerton and Dunkerton to the lhe: eat of the diſtri) Radſtock, and the northern part of a Midſummer-Norton. The latter, the ſouthern part of N

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R RE Stratton on the Foſs,(Halcombe and Aſhwick adjoining the dißri&) Kilmerſdon, Babington, and wit TS fort Theſe, meaning the /atier, are yat were heretofore/ known the name of Mendip collieries, and probably they thee were once within the verge of that extenſive foreſt, t hough lor t now in the mid of old incloſures. They being fll fre- diſin quently deſcribed in ordinary books of topography by the dhoN ſame name,(now obſolete in the neighbourhood) this read remark was thought neceflary for the purpoſe of iden-— tification. Y‘ In the Northern collieries the fſirata of coal form an incli- a ſitu nation of the p/ane of about nine inches in the yard: theſe| H are in number nineteen. Tn thickneſs variable, from ten 6 inches to upwards of three feet. If leſs than fifteen inches, the they are ſeldom worked. Coal is now workir ng generally_ from tats to eighty fathoms in depth: in a few places it deeper; and by a late introduction of machinery to raiſe it À

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