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this river, i. e. seven hundred and eighty above Lake Erie. The highest 

 and only coal bed worked in the township is No. 4, under the gray lime- 

 stone, and from seventy to eighty feet below the highest elevations. Coal 

 No. 1 is seen on descending the steep hill from Newcastle to the 

 Walhonding, in a bed only eighteen inches thick, beneath the great 

 sandstone bed at the base of the Coal Measures, which is here about 

 thirty feet thick. Kidney ore, with a little shale from six inches to a 

 foot thick, separate the coal from the sandstone. For fifty feet over the 

 sandstone the strata are concealed, excepting that the smut of a very 

 small coal seam is observed below the diggings for fire-clay, at the top of 

 this interval. Over the fire-clay, which is three feet to four feet 

 thick, is coal (seen here only in the outcrop), and over the coal a fossil- 

 iferous gray limestone, two feet thick, overlaid with blue chert. The 

 fire-clay is dug for the supply of Butler's pottery, at Newcastle. There 

 is also another small pottery there owned by Mr. Lewis. 



Though the gray limestone is met with almost every where near the 

 summit of the township, the openings of the coal-bed it covers are not 

 very numerous. One of these is James Srnith's, half a mile north-east 

 from Newcastle. The limestone is here several feet thick, and forms the 

 roof of the coal. This is two and a half feet thick, and much mixed 

 with small seams of shale and pyrites. Though the coal is of inferior 

 quality, it finds a sale for local uses, at ten cents a bushel. 



At Calvin Stott's, one and one-half miles south-east from Newcastle, 

 the coal is found two and one-half feet thick, under six feet of the gray 

 limestone. It is here of better qiiality, compact and bright, with not so 

 much sulphur. 



This bed may be opened in numerous places, and is the best the town- 

 ship affords ; yet the next higher bed may perhaps be found near the 

 line of Jefferson, on the road to Jericho. 



The following section, from summit of hills at Newcastle to t te mcnt 

 of Owl Creek, will show the general geological structure of this portion 

 of the county : 



1. Interval covered 45 feet. 



2. Blue chert 1 " 



3. Gray, rotten limestone 2 " 



4. Bluecbert. IJ " 



5. Coal No. 3 2^ " 



6. Fire-clay ■worked for pottery 4 " 



7. Slope covered 85 " 



8. Sandstone 30 " 



9. Iron ore 6 to 18 in. 



10. Coal No. 1 lifeet. 



11. Waverly shales 225 " 



