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crosses the Tp. line between T. 13 and T. 12 in S. 4 of 13 

 and 33 of T. 12, R 3 E. ; and in S. 34, T. 12, K. 3 E., near 

 Walker's Gap, it reaches to the top of the mountain; and 

 with the exception of two short spaces it makes the main 

 top to S. 13, T. 12, K 3 E., where it towers in the lofty 

 naked masses known as "Buzzard Hocks." Opposite this 

 point it was found that the First Conglomerate made the 

 lowest bench on the southeastern face of the mountain, and 

 that the Lower Coal measures were mainly buried beneath 

 the floor of Greasy Cove, and that the coal seams lying be- 

 tween the First and Second conglomerates have their out- 

 crops on the southeastern face of the mountain. Opposite 

 here is the narrowest part of this coal field, the part lying 

 between Greasy Cove, and the headwaters of the Locust 

 Fork of the Warrior Kiver ; the cause of it is obvious, the 

 uplift which produced Greasy Cove encroached largely on 

 this coal field indeed was wholly formed out of it; leaving 

 only a margin of two and a half miles between its rim, and 

 the Murphree's valley fold. 



From the Gilland Gap, near the "Buzzard Rocks," in 

 S. 13, T. 12, E. 3 E., the Second Conglomerate continues to 

 make the top of the mountain to Tumbling Gap in S. 6, T. 12, 

 E. 4, E. At this gap this rock is much broken up and dis- 

 placed. The heaviest boulders are on the southeastern side 

 af the mountain, and the First conglomerate still farther 

 down towards the foot than at the Gilland Gap. This posi- 

 tion of these rocks continues to the northeastward to Greg- 

 ory's Gap in S. 19, T. 11, E. 5 E. on the road from Wal- 

 nut Grove to Attalla ; there the outcrop of Second conglom- 

 erate is wholly on the southeastern side of the mountain. 

 It is only 100 feet thick, and is separated from the First con- 

 glomerate by only 110 feet of strata, while at Lyttleton on 

 theT. & C.E. Eoad, near Line Creek in Sees. 17 and 20, T. 11, 

 E. 5 E., it is at the level of the valley, and only separated from 

 the vertical First conglomerate by a line of fault a mere 

 seam in the rocks. But this is abnormal ; for after passing 

 up Line Creek above "Buck's Pocket" it assumes its normal 



