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The numbers opposite the coal beds indicate the distance below the 

 Stockton coal bed. The Black flint is present in the section, but it dis- 

 appears very quickly northward. The Charleston sandstone with its 

 two coal beds, the number 5 Block and the Mason, is persistent, and its 

 massive cliffs make simple the carrying of the Stockton horizon. Sand- 

 stones, many of them massive, appear in the section above the Camp- 

 bells Creek coal bed. and farther north are as interesting as the coal 

 beds themselves. 



At Gilboa, in southern Nicholas county, 10 miles northeast from An- 

 sted, Doctor White's section shows the massive Charleston sandstone, 

 with the blossom of the Stockton coal under it; the Black flint has dis- 

 appeared already along this line, but it is present under the sandstone at 

 only 2 miles toward the west. The thickness of the Kanawha has de- 

 creased within 10 miles from 1,051 to 688 feet ; evidence of coal was seen 

 at 70, 130, 160, 250, 340, and 545 feet below the Stockton. The lowest 

 bed is the Campbells Creek ; no other is exposed except that at 340 feet, 

 which is evidently at the horizon of one of the thin beds occasionally 

 seen on the Kanawha in the interval between the Cedar Grove and Win- 

 nifrede. The exposures throughout are poor, but massive sandstones 

 are present under the Stockton as well as under the beds at 160 and 340 

 feet. The decrease in the thickness is due almost wholly to loss of the 

 lower members, for here the Campbells Creek coal bed is only 120 feet 

 above the Nuttali, whereas at Ansted the interval is 400 feet. 



On Powell mountain, about 15 miles due north from Gilboa, the 

 section extends from the top of the Charleston sandstone to about 330 

 feet below the Stockton. The Mason and number 5 Block coals of the 

 Charleston sandstone, as well as the Stockton, are well exposed, and 

 coal beds were seen at 50, 140, 193, 223, 254, and 271 feet below the 

 Stockton, all of them thin. There is much sandstone below the Stock- 

 ton, but the exposures are imperfect. The Campbells Creek coal bed is 

 not reached here, but it is shown in Muddlety creek, 4 or 5 miles away, 

 at somewhat more than 550 feet below the Stockton. 



Cottle knob, about 11 miles east from Powell mountain, in southwest 

 Webster county, is capped by the Charleston sandstone. The Stockton 

 is not exposed, but coal beds were seen at 255, 588, and 604 feet below 

 the lowest exposure of sandstone. The Kanawha is probably 700 feet 

 thick here. The second and third beds are splits of the Campbells 

 creek. Three miles farther .east, at Camden-on-Gauley, 30 miles north- 

 east from Ansted, a well record, beginning about 250 feet below the bot- 

 tom of the Kanawha, shows that the Lower Pottsville is not more than 

 950 feet thick. The Raleigh sandstone is 92 feet; the Sewell (Sewanee), 

 Quinnemont, and some others of the southern coal horizons are recog- 



