52 Upper Coal Measures of 



Waynesburg coal, as wherever we find the "Broivnsville" 

 coal, the Waynesburg is always from eighty to one hundred 

 feet below. There is a perceptible thinning out to the south, 

 as at Monnington, Marion Co., it is barely three feet. It is 

 here nearly on a level with the railroad track. On Little 

 Paw-paw, near Phelix Michael's, it shows the following sec- 

 tion : — coal, 1 ft., 6 in. ; slate, 2-4 in. ; coal, 2 ft. Through- 

 out the entire country from Brownsville to Monnington, it is 

 everywhere known as the "three foot vein," and every farmer 

 that has the Waynesburg coal opened, knows that a certain 

 distance above is a "three foot vein." 



No. 16 of the westeru section is doubtless identical with 

 the ( 'J3ro?vnsville" coal. It is worked in only one locality 

 that I could discover. Mr. George Woodruff, near Ryerson 

 station, Wheeling creek, Greene Co., Pa., has an opening in 

 it. Here it is only two feet thick, with a parting of three 

 inches of slate. At this point, being twenty-five miles from 

 Wheeling, it is eighty feet above the Waynesburg coal. I 

 should also say that wherever it thins out from its normal 

 thickness (three to three and one-half feet) it also deterio- 

 rates in quality. Impressions of Neuropleris hirsuta are fre- 

 quently found in the shales and slates above this coal. At 

 Brown's Mills they are very plentiful. 



Coal No. 16, Sect. I, is probably the one referred to by 

 Dr. Stevenson, in "Notes on the Geology of West Virginia," 

 as having been struck at the head of Romp's Hollow, by Mr. 

 Lumly. It is easily traced to the east, but I could not find 

 it to the south in Marion Co. It may be identical with No. 

 18 of Sect. II. 



No. 19 is the heavy sandstone that everywhere overlies 

 the Waynesburg coal where it is of workable thickness. It 

 is a very coarse, hard rock, being almost a conglomerate in 

 some places, and its heavy massive outliers are seen pro- 

 jecting from the hills along its entire outcrop from Waynes- 

 burg to the B. & O. R. R., at Farmington, Marion Co., W. 

 Va., which is as far south as I traced it. By means of these 



