On the Anthracite Region, &c. of Pennsylvania. 6% 
and Schuytkill, and in bituminous coal, an important char- 
acteristic not before suspected. The valley of Wyoming, and 
its valuable beds and veins of coal, have been correctly de- 
scribed in No. 1, Vol. [V. of the Journal of Science, by Mr. 
Z. Cist, an able naturalist whose recent death is lamented by 
all acquainted with his me 
I visited several large eel beds and veins in the valley of 
the Lackawanna ; they run in a north-east course ; some were 
wide, and the coal i is of a good quality. Coal veins are of 
* frequent occurrence from the confluence of the Lackawanna 
with the Susquehanna to near the head waters of the former 
river ; they are variously inclined, from nearly horizontal to 
an angle of forty-five degrees. Vegetable impressions are 
rarely, if ever, contained in coal slate of these beds and 
veins 
tsost cimsitlerahle body of coal in this region is sit- 
uated between twenty and thirty miles from the Susquehan- 
na, at the ragged islands, in a narrow valley, adjacent to 
the Lackawanna, and in the bed of that stream, which wash- 
es the southern base of the Lackawanna mountain, a lofty, 
rocky chain, that bounds the partially cleared valley of the 
Lackawanna to the north-west. This mountain is well cloth- 
d with trees of diversified verdure. Considerable 
pine, ge much heavy timber, principally hemlock, maple, - 
beech, and birch, is found near its base, and adjacent to the 
upper part of the river. 
This coal bed, supposed to be very rep is the proper- 
ty of the Hudson and Delaware canal and coal c company, 
and has been penetrated thirty feet sinless finding the termi- 
nation of the coal. From this bed, which —_ in nearly a hor- 
izontal position, a considerable quantity of cellent coal has 
been raised, but from its low situation eo excavation was 
soon filled with water. It has been occasionally cleared by 
es propelled by water. It is supposed that there is suffi- 
nt descent of ground, to free it by draining. The quar- 
ie ing may perhaps be interrupted by freshets. L observed on 
the south bank of the river a wide vein of chal; which rises 
above the stream with sufficient inclination to run galleries 
clear of the water. A large tract on the side of the moun- 
tain that ascends gradually to eve east from the coal bed, has 
been cleared at the expense of the. company, atid a village 
ill shortly arise. Coal coer. extend several miles higher 
= the stream. In value, and good quality, the Lackawanna 
