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LIME: AND COAL DISTRICTS,
The lime-stone and coal distri@ may be defined to lie to the west of a line drawn from the river, at Shire-Oaks, pretty nearly south by west to the river Lene, near Wool- aton and Radford, no lime being found east of the Lene. The lime-stone, which may be called a hungry lime-stone, rising up to thevegetable mould, commencing at Shire-Oaks, and beginning to abutt on the coal near Teversall, runs af- terwards between it and the sand. The line of coal begins a little north of Teversall, runs about south and by west, to Brookhill; then south to Eastwood; afterwards about south- east, or a little more easterly to Bilborough, Woolaton, and the Lene.‘This line’is scarce’ above a mile broad in this county, and above the coal is a cold blue or yellow clay. Between this and the sand of the forest, is the strip before- mentioned of lime-stone.
SECT. V.—MINERALS AND FOSSILS.
Stone.—At Mansfield is got a very good yellowish free-
_ stone, for the purposes of building and paving, staddles,&c.
and for cisterns and troughs, a coarser red kind. At Maple- beck, is a blueish stone for building, of which Newark bridge is built, which bleaches with the air to a tolerable white. At Beacon Hill, near Newark, is a blue stone for hearths, ap- proaching to marble, which also burns to lime. At Linby is@ Coarse paving stone, much used at Nottingham. Coals—are got in the line described in the Coal and Lime-
stone distriét, and conveyed by the Erwash and Nottingham
canals, as well as by land carriage. The price of them is of late greatly raised at the pits, owing probably, in great mea- sure, to the enlarged demand occasioned by the extension of the navigation into Leicestershire, and the supply by the open- ing of new pits, not yet corresponding with it, but that evil is beginning to remedy itself, as many are now going to be
worked, and the price is already considerably fallen at Nottingham.