574 GEOLOaY OF OHIO. 



The strata for twenty feet below are hidden, and then succeeds a bed of 

 massive sandstone, from thirty to forty feet thick. On Crawford's land, 

 nearly a mile to the north, two coal outcrops are seen in two neighboring 

 runs. One is of a coal bed about thirteen inches thick, directly under 

 gray limestone, apparently only two inches thick, and one hundred and 

 ten feet below the level of coal No. 6. In the other run, at twenty feet 

 lower level, is a bed of coal three feet thick, of which the upper portion 

 is cannel, and the lower partly cannel, and partly bright coal. No lime- 

 stone is exposed near the coal. It would appear that these two coal out- 

 crops are continuations of the beds on the Eouth side of the hill, though 

 they are ninety feet higher, and nothing is seen of the great mass of 

 limestone that there lies between them. The coals are probably the rep- 

 resentatives of Nos. 3 and 4, and the limestones that overlie these have 

 here run together. The unusual high elevation of Coal No. 6, on the 

 south side of the hill, may be a barometrical error. The dip, which is 

 certainly very great here, would account for a part, at least, of the dis- 

 crepancy in the height of the coal above the two outcrops of limestone 

 on the opposite sides pf the hill. 



Analysis of Crawfoed's Coal. 



Moisture 2.80 



Ash : , 19.50 



Volatile matter 28.20 



Fixed c: rton 49,50 



100.00 



Sulphur 5.57 



Fixed gas, per cuhio feet per pound 2.19 



Crawford. — Beside the coal banks' on the edge of Mill Creek township, 

 there appear to be none worked in Crawford. The outcrop of coal was 

 observed on the north line of the township, near New Bedford, but over 

 all the rough country from thence to Chili, through the centre of the 

 township, no one appears to have given any attention to obtaining coal 

 elsewhere than from the locality in the south-west corner, already de- 

 scribed. It is probable that No. 6 disappears to the north, rising faster 

 than the surface of the country in this direction, and the lower beds have 

 not been found worth working. Wood has not yet become expensive as 

 fuel, and the demand for coal is not sufficient to render it an object to 

 search for it. 



Newcastle. — The northern half of this township is in the Waverly, ex- 

 cepting only the upper part of the hills in the north-east quarter. The 

 highest lands near the town of Newcastle, on the south side of the Wal- 

 honding, are about four hundred and twenty feet above the bottoms of 



