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all to be removed and thrown to one side of the mouth of the tunnel; 
or it would soon block up the narrow avenues between the pillars 
left to support the roof of the mine. The coal is not so bituminous 
as in many deposits, containing a considerable quantity of iron py- 
rites, but it burns very well. ‘The perpendicular fracture, as it lies 
in the bed, is vitreous and glistening ; its horizontal one is dull, show- 
ing the fibrous structure of wood; and between the contiguous la- 
mine, is a coating of pure carbon, the thickness of brown paper, 
seeming to indicate that these beds were formed from decomposed 
trees. An additional proof of the truth of this supposition is found 
in the absence of all fern impressions on the slatestone lying over and 
between the coal. 
Near the mouth of Coal Run, the road leaves the valley of the 
Muskingum, and we see that beautiful river no more until we reach 
Zanesville, after passing over the ridges and hills common to all the 
sandstone formation in Ohio. 
WATERFORD. 
We are now in Waterford, a township in the N. W. part of Wash- 
ington, bordering on Morgan County. It was amongst the earliest 
settled townships in the State, being commenced in 1789, and for-— 
merly contained within its limits the settlement at Big Bottom ; well 
known in the early history of the country, from the massacre of 
fourteen of the inhabitants by the Indians, in January 1791: the 
block house was burnt and the settlement abandoned until the peace 
of 1795. About a mile above Coal Run, we passed over a part of 
the farm of Mr. B. Dana, consisting of more than one thousand acres 
under fence, and mostly well cultivated in meadows, corn lands and 
pasturage. He annually shears from one thousand to one thousand 
two hundred sheep, most of them fine wooled ; and in good seasons, 
makes four thousand pounds of excellent sugar from the juice of the 
Acer saccharinum. Cattle, hogs, meadows, orchards, dairy, and 
crops of grain and hay are all in the same princely style. His build- 
ings are in the best condition ; a large brick dwelling house, at least - 
fifty feet long and two stories high, is completely covered in front by, 
the wide spreading branches of two multiflora rose-bushes from ‘our, 
native wilds, which, in the season of flowering, afford a most beautiful 
and magnificent spectacle. So completely multiflora is this native rose, 
that I have counted from sixty to eighty buds at the termination of a 
single branch. Four miles from .Coal Run, we come to Olive- 
