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Group, has its greatest development about one mile below 

 Brownsville, Monongalia Co., W. Va., and from this fact I 

 have given it the name of "Broionsville coal." The first 

 opening in this coal, as we travel down Dunkard, is Mr. 

 Abraham Tenant's, nearly a mile below Brownsville. Mr. 

 Alpheus Brown, the proprietor of Brown's Mills on the 

 other side of the creek, has also an opening in this vein. 

 Hon. Wm. Price has opened the same bed two miles below. 

 The following section from Price's bank is typical of the 

 openings in this locality: — bituminous shale, 2ft.; coal, 1 

 ft., 3 in. ; slate, 4-6 in. ; coal, 2 ft., 4 in. 



As is seen from the preceding section, this coal, like the 

 Waynesburg, is double, and this characteristic it retains 

 wherever I have examined it, thus rendering its identifica- 

 tion easy and certain, since it is the only one in the Group 

 possessing this peculiarity. The upper division is not 

 good, as it is very slaty, and contains much pyrites, but the 

 lower part is an excellent coal and in high repute for smiths 

 use, selling for ten cents per bushel at the bank. 



This coal thins out towards the east. Mr. Adam Browne, 

 at Dunkard ford, near the mouth of Doll's run, opened it on 

 his farm, but the entire thickness of coal in both parts was 

 only twenty inches, and the opening was abandoned. At 

 this point it is eighty-five feet above the Waynesburg coal, 

 as proved by a boring made for oil. Four miles east of this, 

 near Mr. Samuel Lemley's, where the road leaves the creek 

 and crosses a small bluff, it is seen as a mere bituminous 

 shale, only eighteen inches thick, and just about as far above 

 the surface of Dunkard as it is at Brown's Mills, eight miles 

 west of this point. I cannot be mistaken in this identifica- 

 tion, since I traced it all the way between the two points, 

 and to confirm the same, coal No. 16 of Sect. I appears at 

 Lemley's in its proper place twenty feet below. 



I also traced this coal to the south through Monongalia 

 and Marion counties, W. Va., to Mannington on the B. & O. 

 E. R. It maintains an almost constant relation to the 



