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This bed is remarkable for the succession of slate and coal strata : 



Mill Creek, a considerable stream, flows by. and has laid the bed 



open one eighth of a mile. At one spot is a beautiful cascade of fif- 

 teen or twenty feet; the coal here crosses the stream, and the pitch 

 is from its jetty masses, which form a singular contrast with the foam 



below. 



I IX. Bed of JUessrs. Sennet ^ Mtner^four miles east from Wilkes- 



harre^ and one and a half from the Susquehanna River. 



I. Soil. — 2. Loose graywacke, alternating with micaceous sand 

 stone and slate, 5 ft. — 3, Broken coal, 3 ft. — 4. Good coal, 5 ft. 

 6. Firm slate, thickness unknown. 



X, Baltimore Company'* s hed^2'k miles JV. E.from Wilkesharre. 



1. Soil — 2. Loose slate, 15 ft., abounding in vegetable impres- 

 sions. — 3. Slaty coal, 2 ft. — 4. Broken coal and slate, 2 ft. — 5. Bro- ' 



ken coal, 2 h. — 6. Good coal, S ft,, (now wrought.) — 7. Coal of first ^ 

 quality, reserved for blacksmiths, 2 k.^ (now wrought.) — 8. Coal of 

 same quality, 6 ft. — 9. Good coal, 2 ft- — 10. Broken coal of inferi- 

 or quality, 4 ft.- — 11. Firm slate, with vegetable impressions, thick- 

 ness not known. — Dip, N. W, about 15^. 



This bed yields 35,000 tons per acre: it is supposed, by those who 

 have examined, to appear again on the Lackawanna, 18 miles dis- 

 tant, a bed being opened there, in which the succession, thickness 

 and quality of the strata, are exactly the same. 



The Baltimore company, began ro work this in August, 1829. 

 The bed is followed into the hill, pillars o^ coal, being left to support 

 the roof. 



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1. Soih^2. Broken slate.— 3. Broken coal, 4 in.— 4. Slate, 8 in, 

 5. Good coal, about 16 ft.— 6. Firm slate, thickness unknown. 



XIL Mr. Rohinson's bed, alout 2 miles south from WilJcesharre. 



1. Soil— 2. Loose slate, 6 ft.— 3. Broken coal, 1 ft.— 4. Slate, 

 1 ft.— 5. Broken coal, 2 ft.— 6. Good coal, 8 ft.— 7. Firm slate, 

 thickness unknown.— Dip, N. W. 



XIIL jMr. Blackman's led 2 miles south from Wilkesbarre. 



1. Soil and loose earth.— 2. Loose slate, 4 ft.-S. Broken coal, 2 ft.-- 

 4- Good coal, 9 ft. — 5. Firm slate, thickness unknown. Dip, 12^. W. 



