THE ALLEGHANY COAL FIELD. 107 



No. III. 



SECTION OF THE COAL ROCKS FROM THE CONGLOMERATE IN SUM- 

 MIT COUNTY, OHIO, ALONG THE OHIO CANAL, THE SANDY AND 

 BEAVER CANAL, THE CLEVELAND & PITTSBURGH RAILROAD AND 



THE OHIO RIVER TO WHEELING, VIRGINIA. 



Feet. 



1. Conglomerate, Clinton, Ohio, surface four hundred 

 feet above Lake Erie. 



2. Bluish Shales and flaggy Sandstones, - - - 60 



3. Coal, near Massillon, Ohio, ----- 4 



4. Grits and Shales alternating, ----- 150 



5. Blue Limestone, Bolivar and Zoar, - - - 3 



6. Shale, brownish color. [At Shepley's, three miles 

 North of Bolivar, is a bed of Coal in this Shale three 

 feet thick, thirty-seven feet above the Limestone; 

 two and a half miles South of Bolivar it is fifty eight 

 feet above,] - 50 



7. Grit, 40 



8. Brown Shale, embracing two thin beds of Coal, - 100 



9. Coarse Grit, - . . 50 



10. Coal, 4 



11. Limestone^ 3 



12. Brown Shale, 30 



13. Coal, Waynesburg, three hundred and eighty-six 

 feet above Lake Erie, 3 



14. Grits and Shales, with thin and broken Coal seams, 120 



15. Limestone., Hanoverton, ------ 3 



16. Coal, Rochester, five hundred and twenty-three feet 

 above Lake Erie, - - 5 



[There is difiiculty in recognizing this bed beyond 

 the Yellow Creek summit, at Salineville, owing to 

 a rise in the strata on the line of dip, for a short dis- 

 tance, in the direction of the Deep Cut. I assume 

 the calcareous bed at the seventy-ninth mile post of 

 the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, to be the 

 same as that at the eighty-fifth mile, or very near 

 it. At Salineville, the lowest visible bed of coal is 



