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tii>!!. I h;!! only >88eii here that there Lb much evidence 

 .«.u|>l«irt the affirmative side of this question. At various points in tin 



I Cincinnati-group beds, — which I am disposed t<> 

 term the Kentucky dome, from the fact that while a part of that area 

 extends beyond thai Commonwealth, its centre and the larger part <>f its 

 re within its borders, — we find the waste <>t a pebbly deposit such 

 not !"• referred t" any other than the conglomerate of th< 

 aeries. At one point in th<- southern part «>t' Campbell county, .-i l >• >ut 

 n miles -■ »nt H • >( Newport, I found in a valle} elevated one hun- 

 dred feet or more shore th>- Licking river, and Borne miles from its pres- 

 ent bed, in the alluvial deposit such as borders all our smaller Btreams, 

 u quantity <>t' fragments of bituminous and -annel coal. Although for 

 neighboring farmers had gathered these fragments, there was 

 no difficulty in finding a dosen | »i« -«-« — averaging ti\-- or six cubic inches 

 tV. > 1 1 1 the low bluff along the small stream. Thej were fairly 



well preserved, ■■« im_' th.ir resistai to decay to the fad that- they 



of a somewhat dense nature, and were bedded in a rather 

 impervious clay. With them wen occasional fossils of the Subcarbon- 

 iferous horizons, and -"in<- pebbles of the millstone-grit age. I was at first 

 • I t.. refer these deposits t.» the action <>t* the Licking river flow- 

 higher levels, but a careful search along the banks of thi> stream 

 within a few miles n( the edge of the coal-field has failed to bear 

 out this idea; foe fragments <>t" coal arc exceedinglj rare in it- alluvium, 

 and where they in-.-nr they arc- very much rounded, while those in thi> 

 high-lying alluvium in this small elevated valley arc rather angular. At 

 a |M.int in Taylor's creek, just ab N rport, there was exposed some 

 •. in the stratified la at about high-water mark 



of the of much comminuted bituminous coal, about one 



inch thick. an«l extending several yards along the freshly excavated bank. 

 I beds lie near the mouth of a small stream the bead wafc 



which are about fourteen miles north of the other above described local- 

 ■ •-.■.I debris. I have reports "t" various similar localities in central 

 Kentucky, showing a curious amount "f coal waste over the Upper Cam- 

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int of these peculiar patches "f coal period debris in 

 Kentucky, I am non disponed to nugpwt that it i- possible that 



i over the Kentucky dome, 



