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vegetation for a new coal seam could spring up and, in time, the processes 

 above detailed were again undergone. Such, in brief, was the origin and 



Legend. 

 Hudson Rive r 

 ilmcsfonfS and 

 Shales I 



fliacj ata Shale 

 and Limesfone 

 Lower hleldetler^ 

 und iVii?fr-hmc ~ 



CoTHlj-e-rou s 



New AX'ba.v.y 

 BUckShale EL 



finobsfo-ne 



Lower CeirloniU" 

 LirnesUnei 



'Ma.nsliel i 

 Sandslone 



Proiucf (vf 



Cidl Measure sS 



formation of those five great veins of coal which form today the chief 

 mineral wealth of our State, and of those vast beds of overlying shale 

 which, in recent years, have come to be used for so many varied products. 



