After showing how the first use of coal amongst our prehistoric ancestors may have been brought about, the author touched upon its occurrence in a calcined form in the old crannogs and other early habitations, proceeding to describe as follows the discovery of unrecorded coal workings in the Wishaw district. A curious discovery of old coal workings recently took place in Glenclelland Pit, Wishaw, where, when working the famous ell coal seam, the miners unexpectedly came into some old and disused workings. The method adopted for taking out the coal seemed to have been done in a remarkable fashion, but at the same time one of the safest which could have been chosen by an experienced manager of to-day. The entrance to these old drifts appears to have been on the banks of the beautiful Calder Water, on the Wishaw side, above Coltness Mill, although no outward evidence of any disturbance here exists, the sides of the glen being covered with large trees. To a probable point here for the opening to where the old workings were lately found would be at least 150 yards. The depth of the coal seam here would be about 5½ feet, the roof coal being arched, and the width of the working places from 7 to 8 feet. The old miners had apparently a good idea of the quality of coal, as in these workings only the best seam was taken out. Wheelbarrows of some description were used to convey out the coal, as This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract