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little below the level of the railroad to the bed of a branch of the Little 

 Hocking. The section is as follows : 



Ft. In. 



1. Heavy sandstone and conglomerate 50 



2. Laminated sandstone and shales 40 



3. Coal 8 



4. Slate 2 



6. Coal (Hobson seam) 10 



6. Slate " " 3 



7. Coal " " 1 6 



8. TJnderclay, and not seen 15 o 



9. Laminated sandstone 20 



10. Limestone 4 o 



(See Map XL, No. 5.) 



The limestone of the above section does not appear on Mr. Storts's 

 land, but a mile down the creek. The coal of this section is worked at 

 various places in a small way. On Mr. Burnett's land, north of Mr. 

 Storts's, the coal is mined and found to be about the same as at Mr. 

 Storts's. At Root's Mill the seam is worked. It has been obtained by 

 stripping on Gilbert's Run, on the land of Esquire Newell, section 16, 

 and on the land of Mr. Branderberry, fraction 23. Mr. Milton King, sec- 

 tion 2, has dug the coal from the bed of a small tributary of Little Hock- 

 ing. He found its thickness only two feet. 



FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP. 



This township lies north of Decatur and east of Wesley. It is chiefly 

 drained by the Little Hocking, but the northern region of the township 

 is drained by a tributary of Wolf Creek. There is considerable smooth 

 land, but it is intersected by the deep ravines of the head branches of 

 Little Hocking. None of these ravines are eroded to a sufficient depth 

 to reach the Cumberland seam of coal, but the Hobson coal is exposed. 

 On the land of Pitt Goddard, fraction 7, the following section was ob- 

 tained : 



Ft. In. 



1. Laminated sandstone 12 



2. Not seen 9 



3. Blue clay, with crumbling limestone 6 



4. Not seen 10 



5. Heavy, coarse sandstone, partly conglomerate 40 



6. Shales and sandstones 60 



7. Coal, Hobson seam, reported thickness 2 



(See Map XL, No. 4.) 



No seam of coal was seen higher than this. There is little of interest 

 to the geologist in this township. There are many excellent farms, and 



