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well enough to permit its identification. The coal is four to five feet 

 thick, and the black shales above it contain the teeth and remains of 

 fishes, characterizing both No. 9 and No. 11 coals. The coal has no 

 clay parting, and no limestone above it. About half a mile above 

 Pidgeon run coal bed, in a rivulet near Capt. Davis' residence, there 

 is an out-crop of coal, which appears to belong to the same No, 9, open- 

 ed by Thom. Davis. 



Peaks of Otter coal, on the head waters of Steward's creek, Hop- 

 kins county, is four to five feet thick, and is covered with shales of 

 exactly the same appearance, and with the same fossil remains as the 

 former. It has no clay parting, and no trace of limestone above the 

 shales. 



Coal No. 9 is also open and worked four to five feet thick, at the 

 Peaks of Otter, near Alfred Town's house, with exactly the same shales 

 as above. 



McNairy's coal, Pond river, MuMenburg county. No. 9 coal crops 

 out here, in the bed of a rivulet, where we could examine a few shales 

 only. They contained the remains of fishes. The coal is not open- 

 ed, and appears to be five feet thick. 



Near the road from Greenville to Paradise, about two miles east of 

 Greenville, we examined two beds of the coal No. 9. The first, Capt. 

 Wing's bank, is two feet thick ; the other, Isaac Luce's bank, one mile 

 distant on the other side of the road, five feet in thickness. Both 

 beds are without clay partings and limestene, and are covered with 

 black slaby shales, marked with the same numerous remains of fishes 

 belonging to this coal. 



Airdrie, Muhlenlurg county, Kentucky. No. 9 coal is not worked 

 now at this place, but it has been, in a shaft sunk from the top of the 

 hill. The shales of this bed are still heaped up near the opening, and 

 were easily identified. Though there can be no doubt about the posi- 

 tion of this bed here, since it is marked by the section of the shaft, it 

 was interesting to ascertain the identity of the fossils. The coarse 

 grained shales of this bed, exactly of the same texture as those of all 

 the beds before mentioned, contain also exactly the same remains. 



Hartford, Ohio county, Kentucky. The same No. 9 coal is seen at 

 this, place, on the banks of Rough creek. The coal is only two feet 

 thick. It has the same shales, the same remains of fishes, a few shells, 



