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seam of slaty cannel coal, four inches thick, adheres closely to the under- 

 side of these blocks. The underlying strata down to the creek are shales, 

 with nodules of kidney ore. A gray limestone is twenty-five feet above 

 the blue, and under it is a coal outcrop. A mile south from the bridge, 

 toward Linton, is an opening in No. 6 Coal, and others also, are seen 

 along the road. At Linton, we found the same bed on the land of Mr. 

 Heslip, where it presents its usual features. At this place another coal- 

 bed is found fifteen feet below No. 6, and has been worked to some extent, 

 but it appears to be of little value. The shales in this neighborhood 

 contain balls of iron ore of good quality, sufficient in quantity to inspire 

 hopes of their being of value, but little dependence, however, can be 

 placed upon them. They are seen in the road a mile or more north-west 

 from Linton, and specimens were preserved. Deposits of bog iron also 

 are said to occur in the bottom of the creek. 



This locality is interesting from the discovery of bones of mastodons, 

 found in the bank of the creek, and in the alluvial bottoms. One of 

 these bones was found a few years ago in excavating the bank for the 

 mill-dam at Linton. One large joint, supposed to be a cervical vertebra, 

 with a cavity through it as large as a man's arm, was taken out, and 

 more bones were thought to be behind it. Search can be made for these 

 whenever the water is drawn down at the dam, at Jacobsport. This 

 backs the water up eight feet, which is all the rise for fourteen miles by 

 the creek. ■ Another discovery was made a mile below Linton, at the 

 mouth of White Eyes Creek, of a large and sound tooth, which now be- 

 longs to Mr. W. K. Johnson, of Coshocton. 



A third discovery was made forty-eight years ago, two and one-half 

 miles above Linton, near Bridgeviile, in Guernsey county, on the farm 

 now owned by Mr. George Gay Mitchell. His father, at that time, in dig- 

 ging a well on the terrace, fifty feet above the creek bottom, found at the 

 depth of forty-two feet, some large bones in a bed of blue mud. Only two 

 of these were taken out, one described by Mr. Mitchell to be a hip bone, 

 and the other as a shin bone, weighing eight pounds. The well was then 

 abandoned, and the rest of the skeleton is supposed to be still there. 



I append ^analyses of two varieties of the bufi' limestone overlying 

 Coal No. 7. 



Silioious matter , 7.80 12.30 



Alumina and iiou 3.20 12.60 



Carbonate of lime 87,00 73.00 



Carbonate of magnesia 1.51 1.66 



' 99.51 99.56 



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