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To get over into the Abb’s Valley Coal Fields, two mountains must be 
crossed, or, rather steep stony hills, consisting of all the formations from 
the coal down to the limestone ; especially Sandrocks X. (Catskill) and 
IV (Shwangunk) here much diminished in thickness ; which accounts for 
the comparative lowness of these mountains when compared with the 
high mountains formed by the increased outcrops of these formations in 
the Northern States. 
The deep rapid rocky bed of Mud Fork of Bluestone lies between the 
two mountains and descends eastward. Where the turnpike crosses it 
it is 400 feet below the notch in the crest of the first mountain, X (s ¥ 
550 feet below the crest itself); and 250 feet below a slight notch in the 
This crossing of Mud Fork is, by 
crest of the second mountain, LV. 
barometer, on a level with the Jeffersonville Court House, and about 100 
feet higher than the Clinch. two miles east of Jeffersonville, at the west 
end of Wolf Creek Valley. 
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The turnpike summit crossing the first mountain (X) is 300 feet above: 
Captain Frank Peery’s, on the head-waters of Clinch (6$ miles north of 
Jeffersonville). Clinch and Bluestone run in opposite directions along 
Wright’s Valley; Clinch westward, Bluestone eastward. The divide 
between them is about 14 miles east of the turnpike, at Frank Peery’s, 
and say 100 feet higher in level. This route from Greenbrier to Tazewell 
is feasible, but it is needless to try to get coal out that way. 
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Mud Fork of Bluestone heads up rapidly westward of the turnpike, 
and yet the valley between X and TV must continue on between the two- 
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