PRE ae 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES.. 
I. DOMESTIC. ‘ 
. Notice of. eae of Plants accompanying the Anthra- 
te of Wilkesbarre. 
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Oct. 8, 1824. 
To the Editor. - 
Dear neers 
Avaitine myself of the opportunity which the 
visit of a neighbour to New-Haven affords, | do myself the 
specimens of the vegetable remains accompanying our coal— 
ey are among the mers characterized impressions which 
have been as yet discovered. 
No. 1 and 2 are the apse moule intérieur, and the ee 
rior covering of the plant, with the accompanying plate of 
coal, which allowing for compression, would indicate the 
thickness of the original vegetable. The specimen sent is 
one of those inundated plants to which the mass of coal is to 
where they grew, and would prove that the anthracite has 
been formed from vegetables which have undergone decom- 
position in water; they are generally found in the floor of the 
coal beds in immediate connexion with the coal —the matrix 
is a fine, carbonaceous, black slate, splitting easily into very 
thin lamine, and burning white; where these plants oceur- 
red, or collected in mass, free from the influence of occa- 
sional muddy water, nearly all traces of organization are 
obliterated. 
The other large specimen is one of those which are found 
only in the strata, (above the coal,) formed from t 
The Specimens accompanying the letter of Vir. Cist are uncommonly 
e, and it would be happy if intelligent men, residing near our various ¢oal 
aie: would take care to collect similar specimens. The p ublic have been 
, furnished by Mr. Cist, with a description and plate of the anthracite 
of Wilkesbarre.—See Vol. IV. p, 1, of this Journal.— Ed, 
PRs 
