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This bed is remarkable for the succession of slate and coal strata j 

 Mill Creek, a considerable stream, flows by, and has laid the bed 

 open one eighth of a mile. At one spot is a beautiful cascade of fif- 

 teen or twenty feet; the coal here crosses the stream, and the pitch 

 is from its jetty masses, which form a singular contrast with the foam 

 below. 



IX. Bed of Messrs. Bennet ^ Miner, four miles east from Wilkes- 

 barre, and one and a half from the Susquehanna River. 



1. Soil. — 2. Loose graywacke, alternating with micaceous sand 

 stone and slate, 5 ft. — 3. Broken coal, 3 ft. — 4. Good coal, 5 ft. — ■ 

 5. Firm slate, thickness unknown. 



X. Baltimore Company's bed, 2 J miles JV. E.from Wilkesbarre. 



1. Soil. — 2. Loose slate, 15 ft., abounding in vegetable impres- 

 sions. — 3. Slaty coal, 2 ft. — 4. Broken coal and slate, 2 ft. — 5. Bro- 

 ken coal, 2 ft. — 6. Good coal, 8 ft., (now wrought.) — 7. Coal of first 

 quality, reserved for blacksmiths, 2 ft., (now wrought.) — 8. Coal of 

 same quality, 6 ft. — 9. Good coal, 2 ft. — 10. Broken coal of inferi- 

 or quality, 4 ft. — 11. Firm slate, with vegetable impressions, thick- 

 ness not known. — Dip, N. W. about 15°. 



This bed yields 35,000 tons per acre : it is supposed, by those who 

 have examined, to appear again on the Lackawanna, 18 miles dis- 

 tant, a bed being opened there, in which the succession, thickness 

 and quality of the strata, are exactly the same. 



The Bakimore company, began to work this in August, 1829. 

 The bed is followed into the hill, pillars of coal, being left to support 

 the roof. 



XI. Baltimore company's bed on the Peas' lot, 2 J miles southward 

 from Wilkesbarre. 

 1. Soil. — 2. Broken slate. — 3. Broken coal, 4 in. — 4. Slate, 8 in, 

 — 5. Good coal, about 16 ft. — 6. Firm slate, thickness unknown. 



XII. Mr. Robinson's bed, about 2 miles south from Wilkesbarre. 



1. Soil. — 2. Loose slate, 6 ft. — 3. Broken coal, 1 ft. — 4. Slate, 

 1 ft. — 5. Broken coal, 2 ft. — 6. Good coal, 8 ft. — 7. Firm slate, 

 tliickness unknown. — Dip, N. W. 



XIII. Mr. Blackman's bed 2 miles south from Wilkesbarre. 



1. Soil and loose earth. — 2. Loose slate, 4 ft.-3. Broken coal, 2 ft.- 

 4. Good coal, 9 ft. — 5. Firm slate, thickness unknown. Dip, 12°. W. 



