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reaching the gap ; thatis, high up the southern face of the mountain. The 
coal bed is 4 feet thick, and vertical. The core of the mountain is a ver- 
tical Conglomerate Sandrock. On the south face of the mountain are 
cliffs of Lower Silurian limestone. <A fault, therefore, runs through the 
mountain lengthwise, thus : 
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This section, however, I did not myself see ; but the information from 
which I construct it was given to me so clearly, and agrees so exactly 
with what I saw myself further east, that I have no hesitation in assign- 
ing it a place in this report, without endorsing it more specially. 
On the west side of Guest River, two miles below the mouth of Tom’s 
Creek, a two-foot coal bed is mined; it lies nearly flat, under cliffs of hori- 
zontal conglomerate rock. Below this place, the river enters the canon, 
through which it rushes for two miles before entering the Clinch River. 
Vertical walls of conglomerate, hundreds of feet high, stand opposit> 
each other. This is the natural gate for a railway line to the Wise 
Jounty and Kentucky Coal Field. 
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Coal beds are opened up and down Tom’s Creek and its branches. 
One coal bed, from 5 to 6 feet thick, runs through the bases of all the 
hills, nearly at water level, and almost horizontal. It is mined for family 
use in the guiches back of Guest’s Station (an old log fort, now a store 
and, although half a mile from the mouth of Tom’s Creek, overflowed 
whenever Guest River is in high freshet), and by Mr. Jessee, and for 
several miles still higher up Tom’s Creek. It is mined up Little Tom’s 
Creek, and oh Crab Orchard Creck, as a fine six (6) foot bed of rather 
handsome flaming coal, solid enough to wagon over rough roads, and 
not making much ashes or clinker in the grate. It is at least equal to 
