664 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



the name of the Upper Lexington Coal, which gradually thickens to the 

 southward, on the south side of the divide reaching in places the mag- 

 nificent height of thirteen feet. 



The section here given exhibits all the coals and associated rock strata 

 of this neighborhood. 



Twenty-five feet below the cherty limestone — the lowest stratum indi- 

 cated in the section — a bed of coal two feet in thickness is disclosed in 

 the ravines northwest Df New Lexington, but it is not at the bottom of 

 the Coal Measure rocks. The coal at the outcrop is of very fair quality, 

 breaks up into small cubes, and has the appearance of Coal No. 1. 



