156 Miscellaneous Notices, §-c. 
No. 23. White paneeton. composed chiefly of raerpiaas 
quartz; it is used in the composition of glass, at the manu- 
factory in Zanesville, and found in an extensive bed, jase 
miles apers that town, on the Muskingum bank. 
No. Three specimens of common sandstone, from the 
falls in es Muskingum river, at Zanesville—taken twenty 
feet below the surface of the rock—impressed with the scales 
of a fossil fish, and containing charcoal. The figure of the 
fish, was very finely engraved on the face of the rock, between 
the fissures made in quarrying, but was broken up into small 
pieces by the workmen; the whole cast was five feet long. 
The canal round the falls is cut in this rock ; from this canal 
numerous slips or cuts, are made laterally into the Musking- 
um, affording sites for mills. In making a cut of this kind 
last summer, a fossil fish rare found, and a considera- 
ble bed of char 
No. 25. A iaitate rock partly decomposed or ae 
grated, and ‘aka ing much sahlite ; found near Newark, i 
diluvial soil; but found he on the tops of the highest hills in in 
Athens county, and in the waters of Federal creek. 
Nos.-26 and 27. Argillaceous iron, in concentric layers, 
from the hills, two miles south east from Newar 
No. 28. Globular, pyritous iron, found in the sandrock at 
Zanesville. Large quantities of globular, soem iron 
ore, are found in the alluvial soil of Licking creek, at Newark, 
from the size of a four pound to that ofa forty eight pound shot; 
some are very round, others are shape The 
are sometimes found in digging for iron peony but mostly in 
searching for limestone, which is obtained in large and small 
detached masses, from six to ten feet deep, Cov erad with grav- 
el and earth. The globular iron ore is covered with a coat 
of rust, one half or three fourths of an inch thick, which easi- 
ly comes off in scales. I have (says Dr. H. of th 
— sa aight inches, the other six in — 
9. Compact, argillaceous iron ore, very rich; found 
in settee nodules, through the hills in Wachington county, 
from one to fifty pounds weight ; sometimes in extensive beds. 
ed iron stone, the ore being apparently in the 
mee condition in which it is in the hematite; it occurs 
ah ° 
Carbonate of iron, or friable argillaceous ore ; 
Mieecean in large beds, decomposing on exposure t 
rain and air, and having the appearance of the rust of iron 
of the shops, 
