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state capital, and the other near Brownstown on the Kanawha about 
ten miles above Charlestown. The peculiar topography, z. ¢., flat, table- 
like hilltops here and there, flat valleys, and many cliffs on the almost 
uniformly abrupt hillsides, is due to the level bedding of a great thick- 
ness of rocks at a sufficient height above sea-level. In the Peytona 
tract the beds dip 5134 feet to the mile, southeasterly, with slight local 
variations which cause ‘“‘swamps” in the mines. On the Parker tracts 
the dip is slight. 
The general section of the rocks exposed in both tracts is given in 
detail. Of a total thickness of 800 feet in the Peytona tract there are 
thirteen coal seams with a total thickness of twenty-two and a quarter 
feet. There are also several very thin seams of iron ore. In the Parker 
tract the total thickness is 640 feet, and eight coal beds with a total 
thickness of twenty-one feet. For purposes of comparison Professor 
Stevenson’s general table of the section of Carboniferous rocks for 
the northern edge of West Virginia is given, and many of the coal 
seams of these tracts are correlated with important seams in Pennsyl- 
vania and northern West Virginia. Bake: 
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