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The coal is slaty, but makes a hot fire, and is an excellent fuel if nothing 

 better can be obtained. It contains a considerable proportion of pyrites, 

 generally distributed. 



This bed is badly cut up by horsebacks of a somewhat peculiar type. 

 In one of Mr. Burson's openings the coal in the main entry suddenly 

 changed into a curious mixture of very base iron ore and prismatic coal. 

 This displaced the coal for twenty yards, and made it necessary to enter 

 the bed in another direction. A thin streak of iron ore is found a few 

 feet below the coal. It is of fair quality, but too small in quantity to be 

 of any value. 



On the farm of Mr. J. H. Carlisle, in section 15, is a chalybeate spring 

 issuing thirty-five feet below the coal, and pouring out a strong stream 

 two and one-half inches in diameter. Directly below it is a bed of iron 

 ore perhaps fifteen inches thick, though this could not be accurately de- 

 termined. The spring is unfailing, and yields so large a quantity of 

 water that when the annual camp-meeting is held on this property, sev- 

 eral thousand persons being present, all the people and horses are sup- 

 plied from this spring without lessening the amount of water in the 

 reservoir. 



Center Township. — On the National Road, about two miles from Wash- 

 ington, Mr. Alex. Eagleston works No. 7b It is here two feet six inches 

 thick, and appears to be topped directly by a heavy sandstone, the Crin- 

 oidai limestone being nowhere exposed. The coal is handsome and said 

 to be very good. The result of analysis is as follows: 



Specific gravity 1.300 



Moisture 2.30 



Volatile combustible matter 36.30 



FLsed carbon , 53.00 



Ash 8.40 



Total 100.00 



Sulphur 4.44 



Sulphur remaining in coke 1.92 



Sulphur forming of the coke 3.13 



Fixed gas per pound, in cubic feet 3.72 



Character of coke Compact. 



Color of ash Gray. 



Two miles farther west this coal is only one foot thick, and about sixty 

 feet below it is a two-inch coal, which is probably No. 7n. One hundred 

 and forty feet bslow No. 7b, Coal No. 7 is seen at Mr. Ed. Nyce's, on the 



