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within about a mile of its mouth ; and the same is true of Mohawk creek, 

 the next branch above. It stretches up the valley of the Killbuck into 

 Holmes county ; and near the mill in the great bend of this stream, in 

 Clark township, it forms cliffs of shales and sandstones, forty to fifty feet 

 high, in which the peculiar fossils of the group are found in great pro- 

 fusion. It forms here, altogether, probably 100 feet of the lower portion 

 of the hills. Doughty's Fork, a branch of the Fillbuck, also runs in the 

 Waverly shales, as they were found with their fossils in the bottom, two 

 miles south-west from Bloomfield. Over the line, in Holmes county, 

 near the north-east corner of Tiverton township, the Waverly is exposed 

 in the valley of Wolf Run. 



This group of the Carboniferous formation contains little of economical 

 importance. It affords no coal nor iron-ore. Some of its beds of sand- 

 stone may prove of value, especially for flagging-stones. The Coal Meas- 

 ures are very deficient in these ; and the want of such stones is already 

 felt at Coshocton and the other principal towns situated in this forma- 

 tion. The brown and olive-colored shales produce, by their decomposi- 

 tion, soils of great fertility, as is seen everywhere through the bottoms 

 where they occur. Probably no more productive corn-fields, for their ex- 

 tent, are to be found in the State, than those in the Waverly soils of the 

 Western townships of Coshocton county. 



Small quantities of galena are not unfrequently met with in the 

 Waverly, and they have led to the conviction that this metal might be 

 found in abundance in this and the adjoining counties. There are, how- 

 ever, no facts yet known that justify this belief. The lead of the Wa- 

 verly forms no connected veins or beds, but is found replacing fossil 

 shells, or, in isolated crystals, scattered in small number through the 

 rock. Hence, while the reports of the existence of lead in Coshocton 

 county, are " founded on fact," there is not the slightest probability that 

 it will be ever discovered in sufficient quantity to pay for working. 



That portion of the Coal Measures found in Coshocton county, com- 

 prises, altogether, the seven or eight coal beds in the lower half of the 

 series ; but only a small number of these occur of workable dimensions 

 in the same vicinity, and it is not often th'at more than one bed has 

 been opened and mined in the same hill or neighborhood. The relative 

 position of these coal beds, and of the accompanying strata, may be 

 best understood by reference to the section, which exhibits the general 

 manner of their arrangement in this county. Every farm in the county, 

 that lies above the Waverly strata, contains one or more of these coal 

 beds beneath its surface ; and those localities that contain the uppermost 

 beds, also contain all the lower ones. But while each coal bed can almost 



