509 [Lesley. 
1871.] 
miles together in a workable condition as to size and posture, and prove 
a source of wealth. 
The principal use of this ore is to mix with other varieties,—with the 
blue carbonate lean ores of the Coal Measures, especially ; but also with 
the inferior grades of brown hematite. The time will come when it will 
be smelted in connection with the primary ores of the Blue Ridge Range 
and Smoky Mountains. 
The forge which stood many years ago at the west end of Paint Lick 
Mountain, in Russell County, used this ore, and obtained it from the sum- 
mit of Short Mountain to the south. 
Paint Lick Mountain is named from an exposure of this ore on its sum- 
mit. The situation is one of peculiar interest to the geologist and to the 
antiquarian. 
CROSS SECTION AT THE ROAD FROM THE CHURCH TO CLINCH RIVER 
ABOVE CEDAR BLUFFS; AT LYLES GAP. 
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Pauw Lick Mtn. minis AL 
Desking Min. N.20°W. —~» 
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A cross-section, at the road over the mountain, through a notch called 
Lyle’s Gap, will show the cause of the appearance of this ore in so singu- 
lar a position. It is confined to the very summit of the mountain for 
some distance midway between the two ends, and to the west of the place 
where the road crosses. Its thickness and extent is unknown, nor do I 
think that more than a few thousand tons of it are to be expected. The 
ore stratum has been swept away from all other parts of the ridge of the 
mountain, and no trace of it has been left upon Deskin’s Mountain ; from 
PAINT LICK MTN,FROM THE SOUTH; CLIFFS AND ORE. 
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which, indeed, the great sandrock No. IV has almost disappeared ; a few 
house and barn-like masses being left standing at its western end in most 
picturesque style. House and Barn Mountain is a prolongation of Paint 
