588 GEOLOGY or OHIO. 



Lafayette. — The greater part of this township is alluvial bottom land. 

 Its interests are exclusively agricultural, and we encountered no coal 

 openings in the township. The higher parts of it, however, must con- 

 tain what appears to be the only important bed of this region, viz., No. 6. 

 The ancient valley, or riverbed, extending through it from north-west to 

 south-east, has already been noticed. 



Oxford. — A considerable pan of this township, also, is bottom land, in 

 the broad valley of the Tuscarawas. Coal beds, however, are worked in 

 the north-west corner of the township, which were not visited. They are 

 probably on the same bed (No. 6) as the workings in Adams, not far tc 

 the north, and those on the same side of the river, and as near to it at New- 

 comerstown, over the line-' in Tuscarawas county. The valley of Wills 

 Creek, on the south edge of the township, is on the level of the blue 

 limestone, and a small seam of cannel coal is seen directly under it in 

 this vicinity ; and under the gray limestone, twenty-five feet higher up 

 in the same run, is a coal bed not well exposed, the upper part of which. 

 is cannel. Coal No. 6 must be in the hills in the south-east part of the 

 township, but no openings of it were seen. 



From Coshocton to the east line of the county, the dip has not contin- 

 ued in an easterly direction, but appears to be reversed. At Coshocton, 

 Coal No. 6, at the Home Company's mine, is about 148 feet above the 

 railroad, which is there 1B8 feet above Lake Erie ; and at New Comers- 

 town, the same bed is 130 feet above the railroad, which is there 163 feet 

 above the Lake, making the bed seven feet higher at Newcomerstown. 

 The direction is about due east. The effect of this flattening of the dip, 

 is to keep the same series of strata near the surface, and give a monot- 

 onous character to the geology. There appears to be no southern dip, 

 either, in the south-east part of the county, judging from the barometri- 

 cal elevations of the Tuscarawas and Wills Creek valleys. 



Pike. — This township is altogether near the bottom of the Coal Meas- 

 ures. The gray limestone is seen very frequently in the high grounds, 

 accompanied by its coal bed. No. 4; and as we see no evidence of the coal 

 being worked, it is probably of little importanc*^. At West Carlisle, the 

 sandstone just under the gray limestone, contains numerous specimens 

 of what are probably fucoidal stems, in a variety of unusual forms, some 

 bearing a curious resemblance to the fossil saurian foot-prints. On the 

 west side of the village, is a large outcrop of slaty cannel coal, probably 

 belonging to the gray limestone, but of no value. No particular change 

 is observed in the strata from this point to the south-west part of the 

 township, where the land soon descends down to the Waverly. 



No considerable deposit of iron-ore was found in place in Pike town- 

 ship, but a number of nodules of ore, of fine quality, were noticed in the 



