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tween the "Clay Coal" and that marked No. 6 (?) in the section, no seam 

 of workable thickness has been developed. 



The coal called No. 5 has been opened in several places, but is reported 

 to be slaty and inferior. Between two hundred and twenty-five and two 

 hundred and forty-three feet above this, a coal was formerly worked on 

 Mr. Taggart's farm, but the mine was abandoned long since on account 

 of the inferior quality of the coal. Near the tops of the hills are two 

 coal outcrops with fragments of an overlying buff limestone probably 

 belonging to the Pittsburgh series, although the coals have not been 

 opened. Two and a half miles south-west of McCoy's a coal is Worked 

 on the farm of Mr. John Winns. It is reported to be four feet in thick- 

 ness, and is apparently the same mined at Knoxville, which is Coal No. 8.' 



The difference in level between the corresponding members of the sec- 

 tion at McCoy's and New Cumberland has already been referred to. The 

 distance between the two points of observation is scarcely a mile, but by 

 comparing the levels of Coal No. 3, the " Clay Seam," and Coal No. 7, the 

 " Prentiss Coal,", it is seen that the dip is westerly about fifty feet. 



The section at New Cumberland is as follows : 



1. Slope concealed 60 feet. 



2. Coni JVb 7— "Prentiss "or "Groff" coal '. 4 to 5 " 



3. Fire-clay with ferruginous limestone S " 



4. Interval showing in places massive sandstone 208 " 



5. Coal No. 3— poor 3 " 



6. .Fire-clay 7 " 



7. Sandy fire-clay --- 10 " 



8. Hard blue limestone - 3 " 



9. Sandy and micaceous shales 55 " 



10. Slopeto river 25 " 



Several deep wells have been bored at New Cumberland. One of these 

 was begun about twenty-five feet above the river, and carried to the 

 depth of one thousand and one hundred feet. According to the report 

 of the drillers the register of this well was briefly as follows : 



FT. IN. 



1. Earth -- 12 



2. Coal 1 



3. Sandstone - 7 



4. Shale 5 



5. ''Blue rock" (sandstone) 7 



6. Black shale ^ 



7. Coal ^ 



8. Shale ...-, 29 



9. White sandstone * 



10. "Bluerock" 3 



