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there. The coal is very pure, and is said to cake quite readily upon the 

 fire. It is so easily mined that, notwithstanding its thinness, a good 

 miner can easily dig and put out seventy-five bushels per diem. The 

 roof is good, and the rooms at this bank are twenty feet wide, without 

 props. Other openings are quite numerous. At Mr. James Gott's bank 

 it is nearly three feet thick, and shows no parting. It breaks out in 

 blocks, leaving little slack, and burns to a fine white ash. Mr. Samuel 

 Gutchall has twenty-six to thirty inches of good, clean coal, but rather 

 harder than that from most of the other banks. At Mr. John Hoster- 

 mann's it varies from twenty-four to thirty inches, but is poor and slaty, 

 and no longer worked. Mr. C rim's coal is slaty, but that from Mr. Boyer's 

 bank, adjoining, is of very fair quality. The character of this coal is 

 very varied here. At one bank it is clean, at anothqir so slaty as to be 

 worthless; at* one it is open-burning, at another a caking coal. Like 

 all the coals of the Barren Group, it can not be depended upon. A sample 

 from Harlem yields the following upon analysis : 



Specific gravity 1.267 



Moisture 2.90 



Ash 3.00 



Volatile combustible matter 29.90 



Fixed carbon 64.20 



Total 100.00 



Sulphur 0.96 



Sulphur left in coke 0.57 



Sulphur forming of coke 0.84 



Fixed gas per pound, in cubic feet 3.48 



Ash Gray. 



Coke Compact. 



In London and southern Perry this coal was not observed. It is un- 

 doubtedly present, as an attempt was made some years ago to work it at 

 Rumley, in Harrison county, just by the county line. Of course no esti- 

 mate can be made respecting its thickness or value. In Perry township 

 it was observed about a mile from Perrysville, on the property of Mr. 

 Othniel Baker. It is there one foot thick, of poor quality, resting almost 

 directly on a bluish nodular limestone, and twenty-three feet below the 

 upper layer of the Crinoidal limestone. From Mr. Baker's it was traced 

 to Palermo, in Union township, where it is ten inches thick and twenty- 

 five feet below the limestone. Northward in this township it is seen 

 approaching the limestone and becoming thinner. Near CarroUton it is 

 only four inches thick, and northward from that village it was not ob- 



