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thick, soft and cementing in character, with considerable sulphur. It 

 contains a slate parting eighteen inches above the bottom. 

 A well bored here passed through — 



IT. 



1. Gravel and clay 15 



2. Cannel coal and slate 4 



3. Clay 6 



This cannel coal has been opened in several places north and east of 

 this locality, but has proved impure and of little value. 



At Lynchburg a coal seam is opened, which is apparently No. 6. The 

 section there is as follows : 



PT. 



1. Drift 10 



2. Sandrock 20 



3. Shale 5 



4. Coal, with slate parting 4^ 



5. Fire-clay 3 



6. Sandrock 



At Sylvester Reeder's mine, by the old canal in Hanover, the coal lies 

 about twenty feet above Hanover Station. The section here is as fol- 

 lows: 



FT. 



1. GrayShale 40-50 



2. Coal, with parting in middle 3J 



3. Fire-clay - 5 



At the canal bridge, near this mine, a limestone is said to have been 

 cut through, in building the canal, about thirty feet below the coal. 



The same coal as that worked by Reeder is opened on B. Petit's farm, 

 lot thirty, Hanover. It is here about four feet in thickness, and has & 

 slate parting near the middle. In the fire-clay which underlies it is 

 another thin seam of coal, as at Somerville's mine. 



On Mordecai Miller's farm, lot thirty, is an outcrop of limestone forty 

 feet above the coal worked, which is the same with Reeder's and Petit's, 

 and probably No. 6. Just beneath the limestone is a seam of coal, but of 

 what thickness could not be ascertained. This is possibly Coal No. 7, 

 here unusually near No. 6, and having a limestone over it, as it generally 

 does in Stark county. 



At the mine of John Burton Coal No. 6 is four and a half feet thick, 

 the roof is shale, overlain with sandstone, and in one of Burton's open- 

 ings the sandstone descends and cuts out the coal. In the cut at the 

 railroad summit the rock exposed is mainly gray shale; this includes, 

 however, a thin seam of coal and a band of limestone. Possibly these 

 may represent the horizon of Coal No. 7, which, in all this region, is thin 



