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where certainly recognized. la Vinton county, indeed, it has not been 

 clearly identified. There are several thin seams near its proper horizon. 

 As to its identification with the Hatcher Coil, nothing need be added to 

 the statements already made under the previous head. 



12. The next coal seam is one of Dr. Newberry's main numbers in 

 Eastern Ohio, viz.. Coal No. VII. It is a well-developed and well-known 

 seam in the Ho3king Valley, being here styled the Bayley^s Run Coal. 

 It lies at eighty to one hundred feet above Coal No. VI, with an average 

 elevation, say, of ninety feet. It takes its name from the Sunday Creek 

 region, where its distance from No. VI is a little below eighty feet. It is 

 shown in good force on Meeker's Run, in York township, Athens county, 

 on the land of J. L Gill, E^-q. It is here eighty-seven feet above the Nelson- 

 ville Coal. It has a thickness of four feet, and agrees in character with the 

 two seams next below it. It is held by many to be a coking coal and some 

 good results have bsen obtained in this way, but it is doubtful whether it is 

 rich enough in bituminous matter to make the process possible in the ordi- 

 nary ovens. This latter test is always understood in claiming it as a cok- 

 ing coal. There is little doubt tihat the driest burning coals of our series 

 can be coked by proper or possible management ; but it seems improba- 

 ble that any coal now known in the Hocking Valley will use its slack in 

 the process of coking, in ovens of the ordinary type. There is no ex- 

 tended seam, at any rate, of which this is true. The product of single 

 mines may possibly give such a result. 



All through the southern counties, at one hundred to one hundred 

 and twenty feet above Coal No. VI, a coal horizon is found, which is iden- 

 tified in a general way with No. VII. It is not known to be worked except 

 on the Monitor Furnace lands, opposite Ashland, Kentucky. The seam 

 measures there three feet, and lies one hundred and two feet above the 

 Sheridan coal. 



13. A coal seam that is nowhere very valuable, but that is as steady 

 throughout a wide area as any other geological element, is next met 

 with. It is named Coal No. Vila on the section. It lies about sixty or 

 seventy feet above Coal No. VII. It seldom exceeds thirty inches in thick- 

 ness, and is opened but infrequently. The coal is said to be of iair 

 quality. It is a northern seam principally. At least it has not been 

 indentified south of the Hocking Valley, but this may result from a lack 

 of sufficient work upon its proper horizon. 



14. Coal No. VIK is, on the contrary, found only to the southward. 

 Through Lawrence and G,allia counties a thin seam of coal is often found 

 associated with the Cambrioge Limestone. Lying well up in the Barren 



