Lesley.] 
The bed dips at least 
much over a larger area. 
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5° southward at this precise place ; but not so 
Over it are thin slabs of shaley sandstone, with 
large calamites and stigmaria stem impressions ; and over these again a 
small coal beds which cannot lie more than 20 feet, if that, above the 
other bed. 
I made a careful survey 
No.3 SECTION on THE MAP.RUSSELLS CREEK. 
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Summit 
Tur. 
North Wast. 
Run. 
at R.P Digkenson’s 
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Tae coal dad. 
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Sazle, Vertical and Horizontel.the same; and the same 
as in the preceding Map : 480 yids. to / inch. 
of the hill to the south of this place, the sum- 
mit of which is made by south-dipping con- 
glomerate sandrocks (Sheep Rock of the last- 
section); and found two coal beds outerop- 
ping on its north face, and two more on its 
south face, descending Whetstone Run to- 
Clinch River. This run has a conglomerate 
terrace on its left bank, and is rendered very 
rocky by the descent of fragments of rock. 
Section No. 3 on the map is the most instruct 
ive I could obtain in this district of the region, 
and requires no explanation. It shows that 
the distance from the Six-Foot Bed up to the 
Sheep Rock Conglomerate is everywhere about 
700 feet, and contains at least two coal beds ; 
and that there is one more coal bed above the 
conglomerate. I had no means of determin- 
ing the size or quality of any one of these three 
beds ; but they are all, probably, under 3 feet. 
The above sketch-map and this accompanying 
cross-section (No. 3) were measured on the 
ground and drawn to scale. They enable me 
to speak of only ove coal bed above the Sheep 
Rock Conglomerate, with two outcrops on this 
road, looking like two coal beds. Further 
east, as will be seen, this bed (?) has several 
others over it. 
The section renders it doubtful whether the 
coal dug at lowest water in the bed of the 
Clinch at the mouth of the Whetstone be the 
six-foot bed. It looks more like the second 
bed above it. But the southeast end of the 
section is a little obscure, and I had no time 
to study the exact character of the Down- 
throw of the Coal Measures against the lime- 
stones* at this point. It runs through an iso- 
lated hill, quite surrounded by a bend of the 
river, as shown in the sketch-map on the next 
page. 
* Query.—Do these belong to an outcrop of the subcarboa 
jferons limestone issuing from the fault ? 
