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intercalated bed, if one may judge from its Budden origin and expansion. 

 It is absent over the greater part of Muskingum and Guernsey counties 

 in localities where both Nos. 6 andj 4 can be recognized without doubt. 

 Coal No. 4 is of no importance, and was observed at no other locality. 

 Here it consists of cannel, three inches, bituminous coal, four inches. 

 Coal No. 3a, though here only twenty-two inches thick, becomes thirty 

 inches at another point about a mile east from Mr. Menefee's, where it is 

 worTjed. It is highly esteemed by some, as it makes a cheerful fire. A 

 layer of bituminous coal, three inches thick, is found at the bottom. 



The limestones are all bluish. The gray limestone is apt to be shaly, 

 is less tough, and more granular than those below. It has been used 

 successfully as a flux. The middle limestone is cherty, with the flint 

 irregularly distributed through it. Near Mr. Matthews's coal works the 

 limestone is absent, being replaced by the flint. The ore, so wdU marked 

 in Madison, Jackson, Licking, and Muskingum, is absent here, or rather 

 is traceable only by means of a few scattered nodules accompanying the 

 chert. The ore resting upon the gray limestone is of no value, being im- 

 bedded in sandstone. The sandstones of the section along the river, be- 

 tween Nos. 4 and 6, are compact, and would doubtless be excellent for 

 building purposes. 



Coal No. 7 was seen only at one point. It is seventy-five feet above 

 No. 6, and is not more than nine inches thick. South of the Central 

 Ohio Kailroad it is mined extensively, and is four to five feet thick. 



Adams Township. — The greater portion of Adams lies at such an eleva- 

 tion as to place it far above any available coal. The higher coals, which 

 are worked at Norwich, Union township, thin out northward and become 

 worthless. On Symmes Creek and Wills Creek Coal No. 6 is exposed. A 

 section of the township is as follows : 



FT. IN. 



1. Crinoidal limestone 2 



2. Shale 2-15 



S. CoalNo.76 10 



4. Fire-clay 2 



5. Shale and sandstone 100 



6. CoalNo.7 6 



7. Shale and sandstone 80 



8. CoalNo.6 3 6 



9. Fire-clay ' 4 



10. Not well exposed 30-70 



11. CoalNo.4 2 



Coal No. 6 is worked by Messrs. Keyes & Ridgway, on the north fork of 

 Symmes Creek, in section 16. No opportunity was afiorded for examin- 

 ing these banks, as they were full of water. The coal is said to be three 



