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No. 6 is the highest coal that has been mined, the one 

 above it having been worked by stripping. This bed was 

 mined some years ago on Mr. Grim's property, on Pumpkin 

 Run, Monongalia Co., W. Va., to supply fuel for Mr. Jno. 

 Lautz's steam mill,, one-half mile below. At this opening 

 the dip is southeast. Mr. Franklin Taylor, one mile and 

 one-half above Jolly town, Greene Co., Penn., has procured 

 his fuel from it for several } r ears. One mile above this point 

 it is seen on land of Mr. Thos. White. It is doubtless iden- 

 tical with No. 9 of Sec. II, which has been worked by Mr. 

 Leals, on Wheeling creek. It is quite sulphurous, and too 

 impure to be used for smithing. 



The shale above this coal is interesting, as it is the highest 

 horizon at which fossil plants have yet been discovered. On 

 land now owned by Mr. Shriver, two miles from West War- 

 ren, Monongalia Co., W. Va., I found some impressions of 

 what seems to be a Pecopteris, but they are not well enough 

 preserved for specific determination. This is the only local- 

 ity found by me, though doubtless others exist. 



No. 8 is the purest limestone found in the Upper Barren 

 Group on the eastern side. It first appears above the sur- 

 face one mile above Kent's Mills on Dunkard creek ; from 

 this point it is easily traced down the stream to near Mt. 

 Morris, Greene Co., Penn. 



Coal No. 10 is very impure, consisting merely of bitumi- 

 nous slate in many places. Mr. Jacob Minor has opened 

 this coal near the creek bank, one mile above Blacksville, 

 Monongalia Co. ; it is here sixteen inches thick. The smut 

 of this coal is seen all along the road from Mr. Minor's to 

 New Brownsville, a distance of five miles. It seems to have 

 no representative in the western section. In the shale above 

 it were found some very good impressions of JYeiwojJieris 

 Loschii. 



No. 12 is a very impure limestone, and is constantly asso- 

 ciated with coal No. 10. 



Coal No. 14. This coal, the most important one in the 



