460 W. M. Fontaine—“ Great Conglomerate” on New River. 
amount may be taken at 80’ (80 feet) to the mile. 
The strata shown at the mouth of the Kanawha belong to the 
numerous beds of coal are reduced to one, or at most two; 
and the massive formation of sandstones and shales, forming, 12 
the north of the State, “The Upper Barren Measures,’ are 
lacking. Up the Kanawha, the gentle inclination of the strata 
causes the Pittsburg coal to crop out near the mouth of the 
Pocatalico River, having here increased to a thickness of 5. 
A second thin bed is here shown. No measurements have been 
made of the thickness of the Upper Coal series. For the sake 
of comparison, I adda description of the same strata in the no 
of the State, as determined, near Morgantown, by Prof. Rogers 
and Dr. J. J. Stevenson. In this section the series contains 
our beds of coal, with 27’ of pure bituminous matter, the 
Pittsburg alone having a thickness of 114’ of pure coal, with 
23’ of shale. Besides these there occur, higher up, two other _ 
_ Seams, which are locally of importance. The former are COD 
