Lesley,] 510 [April 21, 
Lick synclinal westward and is named from two masses of No. IV, 
left upon its summit, visible from all the surrounding country. Dial 
Knob (East River Mountain) and Buckhorn Mountain are prolongations 
of Paint Lick and Deskin’s synclinals, eastward beyond Jeffersonville, 
and Dial Knob may have a good deal of fossil ore left upon it in the cove, 
behind the Dial Cliffs ; but Buckhorn has lost the ore. So has the whole 
range of Rich Mountain, from Rocky Gap west, to Morris’s Knob, which 
is terminated by one ofthe most remarkable cliffs of No. IV I ever saw 
(see its profile below). Short Mountain is a prolongation of Rich Moun- 
tain westward, broadened by a shallow synclinal which must hold large 
quantities of the fossil ore. The synclinal of House and Barn Mountain 
is prolonged westward (past Lebanon, far down Clinch River) as a down- 
throw of the No. V Formation against the limestone of No. IT; and all 
along the south side of Copper Ridge there runs a south dipping plate of 
.RPEMENT OF No. IV, 200 Fr. WALLS, 
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the fossil ore, which has been opened, in old times, at one point, and used 
in a now abandoned forge. There must be immense quantities of the 
ore in this ridge. It is known to the inhabitants, however, only as a 
paint. But this will be a sufficient guide to the iron master. 
The Indians used the outcrop of the fossil ore bed to paint their faces 
and lodges. The deposit on Paint Lick Mountains was a famous locality 
among the Aborigines. On a smooth perpendicular wall of sandstone, 
facing southward, and visible from General Bowen’s house and the 
Maiden Spring, there remain numerous pictures and symbols of men and 
animals in red paint, fresh as when first made, and older than the settle- 
ment of the country by the whites. I give above a view of this long wall 
of sandstone cliffs as I saw it from the Lebanon—Jefferson turnpike ; and, 
when taken with the cross-section, it will explain without further words 
both the structure of this (and other similar mountains) and the cause of 
the small amount of fossil ore left upon its summit, and the total disap- 
pearance of the last remains of the ore deposit from the summits of 
House and Barn, Desmit, Buckhorn, and Rich Mountains. 
But there are extensive outcrops of the fossil ore of No. V along Poor 
Valley ; in fact the deposit (whether rich or not remains to be discovered) 
runs uninterruptedly more than a hundred miles in an almost mathemati- 
cally straight line along the south flank of the Clinch Mountain from 
