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rim of the valley. South-west from that, the Clinton is 

 found capping the mountain, and the Trenton* Limestone 

 making its base. The mountain is thence regular in its 

 structure, and in all respects similar to the western or main 

 Red Mountain of Murphree's Valley. From Village Springs 

 its trend is S. S. W. to 8. thus very materially increasing the 

 width of the valley below that place. For a few miles it is 

 a well defined ridge, or mountain, but becomes broken up 

 into knobs, and detached fragments, and disappears in the bi- 

 furcation of the valley in that broken up region heretofore 

 referred to, lying between the north-eastern, and south-east- 

 ern prolongations of Jones' valley. The Red Mountain, or 

 Clinton ridge terminates, but the whole region lying between 

 the forks of the valley, and the terminal end of Raccoon or 

 Blount Mountain, is its equivalent, and is mainly composed of 

 Clinton and Sub-Carboniferous strarta, much disrupted, but 

 possessing admirable economic relations. It holds the same 

 iron ore beds, carrying about the same quantity and quality 

 of ore that we have previously seen in this formation. 



In this region are also exposed large quantities of the flux 

 rock, the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone. It is pre- 

 sented in large volume, in, and north of Spradling's Cove; 

 north east of Clayton's Cove, and east of Clayton's Cove, 

 in Bear Mountain, which is almost wholly composed of Car- 

 boniferous Lime rock, and has also much Calcite, or pure 

 Carbonate of lime. 



We close our description of the east Red Mountain, with 

 one sample of its ores as characteristic of the whole taken 

 in S. 3, T. 15, R. 1, W. on the main mountain separating 

 Spradling's Cove from Jones' Valley. 



An opening had been made here near the top of the moun- 

 tain, on its western side, by John Rickles, who had long been 

 a trusted agent of the Sloss Furnace Company. The open- 

 ing was cut squarely in, on bed No. 1 of the General Section, 

 and showed nearly three feet of good ore, about average 

 quality for that seam. Dip 40 to S. E., crossing over the 

 top of the mountain to the S. E. The slope of the mountain 

 was found to be about 50 to the perpendicular. This. slope 



