392 Miscellanies. 



tain near the line which separates Tennessee from Alabama. The 

 first out-crop in the main Cumberland mountain is near Battle creek, 

 in Tennessee, ten or twelve miles southwest from Jasper, Marion 

 county. Several out-crops of coal are towards the west and north- 

 west from Jasper. The coal seems there to be deposited in hori- 

 zontal strata of great extent, and it is, therefore, probable, that every 

 where there in the mountain, coal may be found by boring. In 

 Walden's ridge, on the eastern ridge of the Sequatchee valley, coal 

 is seen. A few miles east from Pikeville, in Bledsoe and Rhea 

 counties, are several out-crops of coal, some of which are opened 

 and furnish the coal for several of the blacksmiths' shops of Wash- 

 ington, Pikeville and the surrounding country. Continuing on Wal- 

 den's ridge from these coal banks in a direction from southwest to 

 northeast, we find several beds, one lately opened by Mr. Gillenwa- 

 ter, and another near the turnpike road from Kingston to the Crab- 

 orchard, belonging to Mr. J. Kimbrow. They are worked at pres- 

 ent, and the coal transported to New Orleans by boats, which are 

 , loaded in the Tennessee river, which is only three miles from the 

 coal bank. 



" JNot only are the out-crops found along the eastern slopes of the 

 mountain, as I have described them, running from Huntsville, Ala- 

 bama, to the above mentioned turnpike, (and it is probable that they 

 may continue to the Cumberland river,) but they extend also towards 

 the west. Travelling from the above mentioned Kimbrow's coal 

 mine in a western direction, we find abundance of out-crops, as op- 

 posite Mr. Burke's on the Crab-orchard, — we find it still more wes- 

 terly, or rather north westerly, near the head of the Calf-killer creek, 

 on the north western declivity of the mountain in White county, 

 where the liquid bitumen (^petroleum) oozes out of the rocks. Con- 

 tinuing northward, the coal strata crop out in several places. In 

 Fentress county several pits have been opened by General Rodgers, 

 who sent the coal clown the Obey and Cumberland rivers. 



" Near the northern limit of the State, the breadth of the coal for- 

 mation seems to be the greatest ; it comprises here part of Overton, 

 the whole of Fentress, Campbell and part of Claiborne counties. 

 Besides the above named counties, coal may be found in White, 

 Morgan, Anderson, Roane, Warren, Bledsoe, Rhea, Hamilton, Ma- 

 rion and Franklin counties." 



A map accompanies the Report, giving the limits of the coal for- 

 mation of this State. 



