672 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



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Sand-rock. 



Yellow shale 8 



Blue shale 2 



Shaly coal 1 



Sbale parting 1 



Coal 1 8 



Shaleparting 3 



Coal 2 



Cannel coal, impure 10 



It is a black, lustrous, moderately melting coal, showing considerable 

 sulphur in combination with iron, and leaving a purple ash. It has evi- 

 dently high heating power, and will prove a valuable coal for all pur- 

 poses in which the sulphur present will not prove objectionable. Professor 

 Andrews describes the out-crops and openings in this coal as follows : 

 " The middle, or Norris, seam is found on the Neesly McDonald farm,- 

 Section 22, Monroe township ; at J. B. Latta's, Section 4, Pleasant town- 

 ship ; at J. Pyle's, in Pleasant township ; at Benjamin Saunders's, Mon- 

 roe township; above the great seam, at the Sands bank, Section 9, 

 ■ Monroe township ; at Moxahala village, and at many other points. At 

 the Sands bank, the middle coal has been well opened, and measures 

 four feet two inches, with four feet of clay-slate roof. No slaje partings 

 were seen, and the coal appeared to promise well. Here the interval 

 between this eeam and the great one below, is fifty feet. At Benjamin 

 Sanders's on West Fork, the middle seam measures only two feet six 

 inches, and the quality is poor. At Perrara, on the Nelson Rogers farm, 

 the place of the middle coal is seen, but only a few inches of coal are 

 found. The middle seam appears in the hills near Moxahala village, 

 and, at one exposure, measured four feet two inches, with a two-inch 

 slate parting a little above the middle. On Thomas Kinsell's farm, it is 

 thinner, measuring only two feet, with two inches of slate in the middle. 

 The upper bench is quite sulphurous. This is forty to forty-five feet 

 above the place of the great seam. In the hills northward, toward New 

 Lexington, the middle seam is not often found, it being replaced by the 

 heavy sand- rock almost everywhere found over the great seam, here , 

 called the upper New Lexington seam." 



The thin bed of cannel coal at the bottom of the seam, is too impure 

 for use; but a hasty examination showed coprolites, fish-scales, and 

 teeth, indicating a promising field of exploration for the paleontolo- 

 gist. 



The following is a copy of Professor Wormley's analyses of two speci- 

 mens of this coal, from the Norris bank : 



