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Another well, one-half mile east of the last, gave — 



FT. 



1. Earth 1 



2. Soft sandstone 13 



3. White sandstone 24 



4. Stratified iron ore 6 



5. Sandrock and shale 4 



6. Fire-clay 3 



7. Shale 3 



8. Fire-clay 2 



9. Dark shale 13 



This is evidently not deep enough to afford a satisfactory test. 

 A third well, in the north part of the township, east of the Center 

 road, gave — 



FT. IN. 



1. Yellow clay 10 



2. Bine clay 40 



3. Saudrock 41 



4. Sandy shale 4 



5. " Flint," very hard 6 



6. Sandyshale 12 6 



7. Fine sandrock 26 



This, also, was probably not deep enough. 



An instructive section is furnished by a well three-quarters of a mile 

 east of the Center ; this is — 



FT. IN. 



1. Earth 10 



2. Shellyrock 10 



.3. Sandrock 40 



4. Clay 4 



5. " Sulphurous" sandrock 8 



6. Clay 3 



7. Shalycoal 9 



8. Coal,good 6 



9. Shale 7 



10. Coal,poor 11 



11. Bla^skshale 1 6 



This hole certainly did not reach near the horizon of the block coal, 

 but is carried to about the place of the bottom of the shaft, and shows the 

 mixed character of the deposits in even a greater degree than the shaft 

 section. 



Mr. Goss has sent me sections of three wells bored south of the Center 

 to the depths respectively of one hundred and twenty-six and a half, 

 eighty-eight, and seventy-eight feet. They show alternations of shale, 



