(312 Review of Prof. Johnson’s Report on American Coals. 
of the anthracites were from the Beaver Meadow mines, sent by 
the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company; two from the 
same mines, procured by the Navy Department for the use of the 
Navy; one from the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s 
mines, sent by the Company ; one from “ Lackawana,” sent by the 
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ; one from “ Peach Moun- 
tain,” Schuylkill county, sent by the Delaware Coal Company 
of Philadelphia; one from Forest Improvement mines, Broad 
Mountain, Schuylkill county; and one from Lyken’s Valley 
Coal Company, Dauphin county,—all being from mines within 
the state of Pennsylvania. Of the semi-bituminous or free burn- 
ing class, six were from the coal field in the neighborhood of 
Cumberland, Maryland ; viz. one from Atkinson’s and 'Temple- 
man’s mine; one from Neff’s mines; two from Easby’s mine, 
ealled coal in stone; one from the New York and Maryland 
Mining Company; and one from a quantity of “Cumberland 
coal,”’ purchased for the use of the Navy. The first five were 
furnished by the proprietors of the mines. The six other semi- 
bituminous coals were from Pennsylvania, consisting of one from 
Karthaus, on the west branch of the Susquehanna; one from 
Cambria county, sent by J. Brotherline; one from Lycoming 
Creek, sent by A. McIntyre, near Ralston, Lycoming county ; 
one from Blossburg, Tioga county, sent by the Arbon Coal Com- 
pany ; one from Quin’s Run, Clinton county, sent by McDonald 
& Hollenback; and one from Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal 
Company, sent by Isaac Lea, Esq., of Philadelphia. Of the bitu- 
minous coals, eleven were from the coal fields in the vicinity of 
Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia, viz. five from the Midlo- 
thian mines, furnished by the Midlothian Coal Company; one 
from the Deep Run mines of J. Barr, Esq.; one from the Tippe- 
_ canoe mines, P. D. & F. D. Osborne & Co., agents ; one from the 
Clover Hill Company; one from the Chesterfield Mining Com- 
pany, and one from the mines of Crouch & Snead. 
~ It will be observed that the whole of these coals were from the 
eastern slope of the Alleghanies. Besides these there were tw 
other samples of bituminous coal from the Mississippi valley ; 
one from Cannelton, Indiana, from the American Cannel Coal 
Company, sent by James Boyd, Esq., and one from Pittsburg, 
Penn., sent by W. 'T. Hepp & Co., of New Orleans. 
