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ship, near Hanover, but is there so near the surface as to be of compara- 

 tively little value. 



In Nottingham township Coal No. 8 is worked by Mr. Albert Barrett 

 in section 8, Mr. Hamilton in section 26, and by Messrs. Ramsay & Brown 

 in section 6. At Mr. Ramsay's opening the section is : 



FT. IN. 



Coal 10 



Fire-clay 10 



Coal 4 



Fire-clay 3 



There are several openings in the immediate vicinity of this one, all 

 of which give materially the same section. The coal is soft, and though 

 liked by blacksmiths, is not much prized for domestic use. The inhab- 

 itants of Deersville prefer the inferior coal from McMillen's bank, as it is 

 more durable and makes a stronger fire. The bed is worked quite largely 

 in the south-western portion of the township, on the borders of Moorefield, 

 and is carried six miles to Freeport. 



In Cadiz township the openings are very numerous along the Deers- 

 ville and the Moravian roads, and several deserted banks may be seen on 

 the Cambridge road. On the Deersville road the coal seems to thicken 

 as it passes eastward. At Mr. Ramsay's, in Nottingham, it is only four 

 feet. Two or three miles beyond, at Mr. Alexander Henderson's open- 

 ing, it is four feet six inches, while at Mr. Wm. Hendy's bank, little 

 more than a mile west of Cadiz, the following section is seen : 



FT. IN. 



1. Coal 1 3 



2. Fire-clay 1 2 



3. Coal 5 6 



At Mr. Hendy's bank the dip is reversed. From Deersville to this 

 point the dip is uniformly south-east at the rate of twenty feet to the 

 mile, but from this line to Cadiz it is north-west at not less than fifty per 

 mile. At Cadiz the coal is fifty feet below the railroad depot. Messrs. 

 Beebe and Manly work the coal with a shaft just north of Cadiz. The 

 foreman gives the following as the section in the shaft: Coal, two feet; 

 limestone, five feet ; fire-clay, two feet; coal, five feet. If this statement 

 be accurate, we have here an exceedingly circumscribed limestone, for it 

 is not visible at any of the exposures in the immediate vicinity. The 

 condition seems to be anomalous. Specimens were taken from the banks 

 of Mr. Hendy and Messrs. Beebe and Manly, which have been analyzed 

 by Dr. Wormley, with the following results. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are the top. 



