818 GEOLOGY OP OHIO. 



northern deposit of the Maxville group. None of these fossils have I 

 ever found in any Coal Measure limestone. Since the above section 

 was taken, in 1869, the State of Kentucky has been prosecuting a 

 Geological Survey, and, in the reports of Professor Shaler and his assist- 

 ants, the limestone, which extends southward, is called a Sub Carbonifer- 

 ous limestone. No hills on the opposite or Ohio bank of the river were 

 high enough to take the limestone, and the higher hills further north do 

 not contain it, so far as I could learn. A limestone on the land of the 

 Harrison Furnace Company, several miles north of Sciotoville, which 

 I once saw, some years before our Survey began, may be the equivalent 

 of the Kentucky limestone, but no special investigation has been made 

 to determine this. 



In the south-western part of Jackson county, in Hamilton township, 

 on the land of Enoch Canter, I found the following section : 



IT. IS. 



1. Coal, reported 1 6 



2. Shales and sandstone 15 



3. Fire-clay 3 



4. Iron ore fro.m 6 inches to 3 



5. Flint 6 



G. Light colored limestone 8 



Mr. Canter reported drilling below the limestone and the finding of 

 fine grained Waverly sandstone twelve feet down, there being a clay or 

 " soapstone " between. 



No coal in this neighborhood, so far as I could learn, was below the 

 horizon of the limestone ore, believed to be the equivalent of that found 

 on the limestone seen on the land of Enoch Canter, resting directly upon 

 the Waverly. Jackson Gilliland's coal, the finest of block coal, on a slight 

 elevation west of Mr. Canter's, is by barometer forty- five feet above the 

 Waverly. Here the limestone was not seen. 



At Keed's mill, near Hamden, in Vinton county, we obtained the fol- 

 lowing section : 



II. 



1. Coal Measure rocks. 



2. Iron ore, a thin stratcm. 



X Limestone (brecciated in part) 16 



4. Upper Waverly or Logan sandstone, -with characteristic fossils. 



Here the Waverly is seen to pass directly under the limestone. The 

 same limestone extends down the Little Raccoon Creek, where it is seen 

 in the bank twelve to fourteen feet thick, with iron ore over it, and with 

 ten feet of fine grained Waverly sandstone underlying it, constituting 

 the bed of the creek. This is a little north of the railroad bridge (M. & 



