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the Waide seam on the northwest side of the Field must be 

 the equivalent, either of this seam, or of the one next above 

 it, the J/M /re/// stain, next to be described. 



This seam has not its out-crops exposed farther to the 

 northeast than the middle of S. 23, T. 13, E. 2 east ; or if so, 

 it has not been observed. This may arise from the fact that 

 the dip of the seam, and the steep slope of the hills, are 

 both in the same direction, and all signs of it are hidden by 

 the descending debris. Towards the southwestern end of 

 the Field there are two places where coal is torn up in deep 

 holes in the river ; one in S. 31, T. 13, E. 2 east ; the other 

 in S. 10, T. 14, E. 1 east, which from their location are be- 

 lieved to be on the southeastern out-crop of this seam. 



Xo. 9 of the General Section is known as the J////v</// seam, 

 because it was first discovered on the lands of John Murray 

 in northeast of northwest of S. 22, T. 13, E. 2 east. It was 

 here cut by the river, and exposed in its bed, mostly under 

 water. Coal, bronze shade, brittle breaking up into small 

 cubes, good quality, cokes well, a good blacksmith coal. 

 As exposed here the seam was only 17 inches thick, in two 

 benches, with clay parting of 4 inches near the middle. Be- 

 lieving that a larger seam of coal existed here than was 

 shown in the river, and to test it, and to show its relations 

 test pits were sunk on the seam 200 yards to the southeast 

 and one-quarter of a mile to the southeast of the river, and 

 also a drill hole sunk to bed rock below the seam in the 

 river. These tests showed that there were two small sub- 

 sidiary seams of coal, one 8 feet above, the other nearly 4 

 feet below this seam, and that all the intermediate slates 

 were a mass of fossil coal plants. The coal seam was just the 

 same in the test pits as where cut by the river. It was 

 made evident, however, that enough carbonaceous matter 

 existed here to make a large seam of coal, if circumstances 

 elsewhere admitted of its being all combined into one bed. 

 That this should be the case in some other part of the field 

 is very probable, and gives this seam a great prospective im- 

 portance. It shows at this place the following 



