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worthless, burning much like rotten wood. It is likely, however, that 

 no fair test was made, and that nothing was used excepting badly 

 weathered crop-coal. The thickness of the bed is about three feet. The 

 openings in Coal No. 8 are very numerous. At Mr. John Greenleaf's 

 bank, section 29, the thickness averages four feet six inches, though it 

 sometimes reaches five feet. The coal is very prettily irised, somewhat 

 brittle, and quite bituminous. It contains thin films of carbonate of lime. 

 In the upper six inches are several thin streaks of pyrites, and at a dis- 

 tance of ten inches from the top is the pyrites band, three-eighths of an 

 inch thick. Below this, pyrites is in small quantity, and the coal ap- 

 pears to be exceedingly pure. The sandstone roof is somewhat irregular, 

 but interferes little with the coal. The adjoining banks, belonging t 

 Mrs. Williams and Mr. Frizzel, show no material differences, except that 

 the sandstone occasionally cuts out the coal somewhat, but never becomes 

 troublesome as a horseback. In the banks of Mr. A. Hunter, section 35, 

 and Messrs. McCormick and S. Curtis, section 30, the sandstone cuts out 

 the coal, forming a sandstone horseback, varying from sixteen to thirty 

 feet in width, which is usually softer than the overlying rock. 



Between Sewellsville and New Egypt the erosion is enormous, as ap- 

 pears from the fact that although the distance is only five miles, the 

 whole section from Coal No. 12 to forty feet below Coal No. 8, about three 

 hundred feet, can be measured four times without leaving the road. 



Analyses of Coal No. 8 were made with specimens from Mr. J. McCart- 

 ney's bank (No. 1), near Hendrysburg, and Mr. J. Greenleaf's bank (No. 

 2), near Sewellsville. 



No. 1. No. 2. 



Specific gravity 1.343 1.300 



Moisture 1.30 1.10 



Ash 6.20 5.00 



Volatile combustiblo matter 32.70 37.90 



Fixed carbon 59.80 56.00 



Total 100.00 100.00 



Sulphur 3.02 3.84 



Sulphur left in coke 1.64 1.78 



Sulphur forming of the coke 2.49 2.91 



Fixed gas per pound, in cubic feet 3.27 3.39 



Ash Dull white. Gray. 



Coliie Compact. Compact. 



This coal crosses the Guernsey county line about one mile west from 

 Sewellsville. The north-western outcrop passes from this point in section 

 35 through sections 29, 30, and 24, into Flushing township. 



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