590 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



The following is an analysis of Parks's coal : 

 Specific gravity 1.295 



Moisture 3.80 



Ash 2.90 



Volatile combustible matter 38.80 



Fixed carbon 54..' 



100.00 



Sulphur 1.12 



Sulphur left in coke 0.62 



Sulphur formiug percentage of coke 1.42 



Fixed gas, per pound , 3.16 c. f. 



As'.i gray. 



Coke , compact. 



Virginia. — Coal No. 6 is pretty generally worked throughout the north and 

 east parts of this township — in the north-west part, by Joshua Cornell, 

 half a mile north from Moscow. The bed is here about three and a half 

 feet thick, the coal in sound blocks, with very little waste of fine coal, 

 and very little sulphur. When burned, it shows the purple- colored ash 

 peculiar to this bed. This, as well as Parks's coal, is in good demand 

 through the neighborhood, and as far to the north west as West Bedford. 

 From Moscow, east to Franklin, there are numerous openings worked in 

 this coal bed, and thence south nearly to the canal and the railroad. At 

 Michael Zimmer's, two miles north-west from the canal, the bed is about 

 ninety feet thick below the top of the hill, and overlying a bed of sand- 

 stone ninety feet, under which is the gray limestone. The roof of the 

 coal is black shale. The coal bed is four feet thick, the coal very hard, 

 black, compact, highly bituminous, melting easily, and of excellent 

 quality altogether. What sulphur is found, is in hravy lumps, and 

 easily separated. A small seam of shale runs through the bed, a foot 

 above the bottom. The elevation of this bed above the canal is about 

 170 feet. 



Two miles south from this, and near the south line of the towbship, is 

 the mine of James Scott, in coal bed N >. 3, under the blue limestone. 

 The locality is near the canal, and not far above its level. The coal bed 

 is four feet thick, divided into two benches by fire-clay parting, the upp' r 

 bench from six to twelve inches thick. The mine was opened in 1833, 

 and has produced a large amount of semi-cannel coal, of gond quality. 

 The roof of the bed is a black, calcareous shale, two feet thick, abound- 

 ing in fossil shells. The blue limestone resting upon this, is from four 

 to five feet thick. The gray limestone is spf=n about fcty feet hiirhpr up 

 the hill, and under it a bed of slaty cannel coal, fifteen inches thick. 



