Lesley.] 



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through the hillsides, higher up in the coal measures, and 

 forming crags and cliffs, caves, tables, pulpits, and ship rocks, 

 Fig. 1. of the same picturesque pattern ; but 



they are comparatively thin, and of 

 small account compared with the vast 

 stratum through which the canons of 

 the Upper Paint waters have been ex- 

 cavated ; as the cross section (Fig. 1) 

 will best show. ISTothing, in fine, is 

 more remarkable about these waters 

 than the absence of boulders and frag- 

 ments of rock in the beds of the ra- 

 vines, the smoothness and gentleness 

 of the main streams, and the incredible 

 abundance of sea-sand ; and that these 

 features should coexist with the pre- 

 sence of lofty cliffs on every side, from 

 which it would naturally be expected 

 that thousands of fragments would fall 

 and encumber the slopes. But, on the 

 contrary, the homogeneous and friable 

 nature of the strata has permitted the 

 ordinary meteoric agencies, rain, frost, 

 sunshine, and wind, to wear them down 

 piecemeal, powdering up whatever deba- 

 cle occasional uncommon storms might 

 produce, and passing off the entire deb- 

 ris into the lower country of the Sandy 

 and Ohio rivers. For there is no evi- 

 dence that glacial action has ever had 

 a hand in forming this topography. 



Tlie Coal 3Ieasurcs of the Paint Lick 

 country contain at least four coal-beds ; 

 one of them underlying the Conglome- 

 rate, and the others overlying it. They 

 are none of them large, but they will 

 serve the purpose of local consumption; 

 and, when fully explored, may prove 



