Having had my attention drawn to a communication from H. W. Bristow, Esq., F.R.S., District Surveyor of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, which appeared in the Wells Journal of 12th October, and which relates how he came upon a shaft (with steam-engine, etc., in full operation) that was being sunk for Coal about three-quarters of a mile North of Easton, in Somersetshire, and which shaft penetrated the Old Red Sandstone to a depth of 112 yards, starting at a point from 3,000 to 4,000 feet below the horizon of the lowest strata of the true Coal-measures, I think it not undesirable to make known the fact of an as unwise and hopeless search for Coal in Northamptonshire, at a point probably more removed vertically, but in the opposite direction, from any strata in which Coal wonld be likely to be found.