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gray limestone is met with at one hundred and seventy feet higher ele- 

 vation by barometer, with large coal outcrop immediately under it. Forty 

 feet below this is another outcroj:) of coal, and about seventy-five feet be- 

 low this, a third, and a sandstone bed beneath this, with no appearance 

 of the Waverly to the bottom of the valley in which Bloom field is 

 situated. This group must, however, be very near the surface at this 

 place. None of the outcrops, noticed above, appear to have been followed 

 up to ascertain the character and thickness of the coals. This neighbor- 

 hood is supplied with coal from beds in the adjacent township of Mill 

 Creek. 



Recent explorations disclose the fact that in Bethlehem and Clark 

 township, near the line separating them. Coal No. 7 is in places four feet 

 thick, and of good quality. At Mr. Durr's bank, it has this thick vein, 

 is an open, burning, white ash coal, containing little visible sulphur, 

 and gives better promise of being a good iron-making coal than any other 

 examined in the county. A ciDal was disclosed in a well near Mr. 

 Glover's residence, without cover, showing eighteen inches of the bottom 

 bench, which may be No. 7, or perhaps No. la. On the east half of the 

 south-east quarter of section 23, Clark township, an outcrop of Coal No. 

 •6 is thirty-seven inches in thickness, with a heavy body of shale above 

 it. Other outcrops in the neighborhood are reported to show three feet 

 nine inches of coal. At the opening examined, the coal increased in 

 thickness as the drift was carried into the hill. The coal is hard and 

 black, with a brilliant, resinous luster, containing a large percentage of 

 fixed carbon, and is evidently of excellent quality. At the Imley Bank, 

 on section 25, Bethlehem township, the coal at an outcrop measures forty- 

 three inches, and is reported to reach a thickness of four and one half 

 feet in some of the rooms worked. It is, by the barometer, twenty-five 

 feet below the coal on section 23, Clark township, and about one-half a 

 mile distant. This coal in Bethlehem township, I am inclined to regard 

 as below No. 6, and as that which is disclosed a little farther north, 

 capped with the black limestone. The coal is of superior quality, and 

 there is quite a large territory underlain by it. Coke made from it, in a 

 smothered fire, in the open air, has been analyzed by Mr. E. R. Taylor, 

 who reports the following composition : 



Asli 5.03 



Carbon by ignition 94.16 



Sulphur 82 



At the place of these openings, all the rocks of the Coal Measures are 

 in their positions, and the horizons of seven coals and two limestones 



