. The earth and its inhabitants .. . /////' m'^ 1 Mile. Hainaut and the country around Tournay in the south and south-west, is covered with a layer of loam similar to the loess of the Rhine, and designated by Belgian geologists as "loam of ; Literstratified with it are rolled flints and pebbles, or pierres de Fagnes, which decrease in size as we travel away from the uplands of the Ardennes. This loam completely conceals the more ancient rocks, including the carboniferous strata which fill a huge depression extendino- from Liège to Mons and French Flanders. At Namur the lowest
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . /////' m'^ 1 Mile. Hainaut and the country around Tournay in the south and south-west, is covered with a layer of loam similar to the loess of the Rhine, and designated by Belgian geologists as "loam of ; Literstratified with it are rolled flints and pebbles, or pierres de Fagnes, which decrease in size as we travel away from the uplands of the Ardennes. This loam completely conceals the more ancient rocks, including the carboniferous strata which fill a huge depression extendino- from Liège to Mons and French Flanders. At Namur the lowest seams of coal, those which yield " close-burning coal," crop out on the surface, the superincumbent rocks having been removed by erosion ; but from that place the strata dip down, on the one hand, in the direction of Liège, on the other in that of Mons. At Boussu, to the west of Mons, the lowest coal is supposed to extend to a depth of 7,780 feet. In the basin of Hainaut "caking ccal" is procurable only in the neighbourhood of Charleroi, whilst "open- burning coal," such as is generally used in the manufacture of gas, is only found
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