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sandstone is from north north-east to south south-west, and evidently 

 marks the eastern boundary of a strong current from the north which 

 cut away the limestone, and in portions of Belmont county even tore out 

 the coal. In Nottingham township the force was greater than in Moore- 

 field, for in the former township the limestone has been entirely cut out, 

 whereas in the latter a small portion is left. 



Coal No. 9 is a very persistent bed, and shows little variation in thick- 

 ness or quality. It is only two feet six inches thick, with a two or three- 

 inch parting in the middle. Lying only fifteen to thirtj'feet above Coal 

 No. 7 and sixty to seventy below Coal No. 10, one or the other of these 

 coals is available wherever it is exposed, and it is nowhere worked. Mr. 

 Alex. Henderson, three miles wes't from Cadiz, in sinking a well pa.ssed 

 through this bed and burned some of the coal. He found it remarkably 

 pure, giving ofi" no sulphurous odor when the hot coals were wet, but 

 much softer than the coal below. 



Coal No. 10 may be frequently seen at road-side exposures in Cadiz, 

 Short Creek, and Athens, and occasionally in Rumley, Jefferson, and 

 Archer. The coal is somewhat inferior to that from Coal No. 8, and the bed 

 is thinner, so that it is not worked as extensively as its thickness would 

 warrant. It passes under the court-house at Cadiz, and is exposed in the 

 road-side, near Mr. D. Hines's house, east from Cadiz. Here, as at the 

 neighboring exposure at Mr. Hedges's house, the cropping is too indefi- 

 nite to admit of measurement. 



Near the old plank-road, in Short Creek township, near Mr. Dicker- 

 son's house, and two and one-half miles south-east from Cadiz, the coal is 

 exposed at the road-side, and gives the following section : 



FT. IK. 



1. Shale 6 



2. Coal 10 



3. Shale 3 



4. Coal 4 6 



5. Shale 3 



6. Coal 4 



7. Sandstone (not measured). 



At another locality in this township, about two miles west from Har- 

 risville, on the road to New Athens, the smaller seams are wanting, and 

 only the main coal is found, four feet seven inches thick, and without 

 any partings. 



In Athens township this coal is worked to some extent to supply New 

 Athefis, which lies too high to reach Coal No. 8, being more than one 

 hundred feet above Coal No. 10. The openings were all full of water at 

 the time of examination, and nothing could be learned from them ; but 



