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70 On the Anthracite Region, §e. of Pennsylvania. 
Susquehanna, shells i is an extensive bed of coal, regarded as 
bituminous. It has been penetrated thirty feet without fath- 
oming the depth of the strata. 
Bituminous coal is abundant in Tioga county, state of _ 
New-York, adjacent to the route of a feeder required for a 
canal Semplnied, to connect the Susquehanna with the 
Seneca lake. The summit level is forty-four feet above the 
river, - ‘sad upwards of four handred above the lake. It oc- 
curs on the Tioga, and on the Chemung, a branch of that 
river. When the canal communication is eflected, the inter- 
change of anthracite and bituminous coal for salt and gyp- 
rye will be highly valuable for Pennsylvania and New- 
ork. 
Bituminous coal exists on the Loyal Sock and other 
streams that descend the western side of the extensive penin- 
sula, situated between the north and west brapehes of the 
Susquehanna, 
centre and northern part of this section of the State, is 
elevated and mostly in a state of nature. It is crossed b 
barren ranges, interspersed with valleys and well timbered 
table land, which will in time be occupied for grazing and 
tillage. The rocks of the eastern part that fell under my ob- 
babeatiac are transition, mostly gray wacke slate. In the 
western part, adjacent to the west branch of the Suaquelan- 
na, ene is the predominant rock. 
is stream, for near fifty miles, winds with a moderate cur- 
rent throw a rich valley, with wide alluvial borders often 
occurring. The valley is bounded to the south by the Bald 
Eagle mountain, an extensive elevated rocky ran 
Springs, holding in solution muriate of soda, are commonin 
various parts 0 the bituminous coal region ; they are generally 
weak near the surface, but deep springs disclosed by boring, 
are often strong. One, containing as much salt as the ordi- 
waters of Salina, has recently been some by bor- 
ing, about twenty miles from Montrose, bordering on the state 
ef New-York. They occur in some of the southern eounties 
of that State, adjacent to Pennsylvania, and on the Loya 
Sock and other streams, auxiliary to the west branch of the 
Susquehanna. 
But the most productive saline springs of Pennsylvania, 
are situated on the banks of the rivers Conemaugh and Kis- 
kaminitas, about thirty miles east of Pittsburgh. These TIV- 
ers for many miles wind fapidly through rocky romantic ra- 
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