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depth of about eight hundred feet, but unfortunately no journal was kept of 

 the different strata passed through. The Lower Carboniferous limestone was 

 reached at a depth of about sixty feet, as we learned from Mr. Matthewson, 

 who made the boring, and he also stated that no coal was passed through in the 

 boring, which would indicate that there was no development of coal No. 1 at 

 this point. 



In the bluffs of Spoon river, south of Lewiston, as well as on some of the 

 small tributaries of that stream in the same vicinity, No. 2 is worked at 

 many points, and about a mile west of the city, at one or two of the localities 

 examined, the roof was found to be slightly calcareous, and contained several 

 species of fossil shells, among which we observed Lingula umbonata, Productus 

 Prattenanus, P. muricatus, Macrocheilus, Nautilus, etc. A half mile east of 

 Lewiston, this seam has been opened by a shaft forty feet in depth, on the lands 

 of Mr. Hunter. This shaft is situated in the valley of a small stream, and 

 about sixty feet below the level on which the city is built. Two miles and 

 a-half southeast of Lewiston, we found a mine opened in this seam, on the 

 lands of Mr. "VYm. Winterbottom, on our first visit to the county, in 1859, 

 and at the same time it had been opened a mile nearer to the town, by Mr. 

 Butler. At both these localities, the coal varies from two and a-half to three 

 feet in thickness, and is overlaid by blue shale and sandstone. 



In the vicinity of Bernadotte, this coal is found at an elevation of about 

 eighty feet above the river level, and the coal was mined by Mr. Parks, one 

 mile and a-half southwest of the village, in 1859. In the vicinity of Seaville 

 this seam has been opened on Mr. Harris's place, a little south of the school 

 house, where the coal has been worked in open trenches, by throwing off the 

 overlying shale. In the vicinity of Avon, it was not met with, unless it is 

 represented by the ten-inch seam near the top of the section, on Swan creek. 

 No. 2 usually affords a coal of excellent quality, freer from the bi sulphuret of 

 iron than the average of Illinois coals, and one that cokes well, and contains 

 more than an average per cent, of fixed carbon. An analysis of this coal will 

 be found further on. 



Coal No. 3 has been mined but little in this county, and consequently we 

 know less of its peculiar characters, than of the seams lying either above or 

 below it. It is somewhat irregular in its development, resembling No. 1 in 

 that respect. It usually lies from forty to sixty feet above No. 2, but in the 

 bluffs of Spoon river, near Seaville, they are only a little more than twenty feet 

 asunder. It is almost invariably overlaid by black slate, and a dark blue or 

 bluish gray silicious limestone, which contains Aviculopecten rectalaterarea, 

 Cardiomorpha Missouriensis, with two or three species of small Nautili and 

 Goniatites. About two miles southwest of Bryant Station, the limestone and 

 slate above outcrops at the water's edge on Big creek, and, about a quarter of 

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