"WASHINGTON COUNTY. 471 



Ft. In. 



11. Blue limestone. t 1 g 



12. Blue clay shale n o 



13. Coal -. 1 



14. Clay parting 10 • 



15. Coal i 3 8 



(See Map XI., No. 7.) 



Mr. John Hubbell has a shaft on the same farm to reach this coal. I 

 suppose the seam to be essentially as reported by Mr. Shaw in the above 

 section. Immediately above the coal fifteen feet of blue shale are re- 

 ported, and above this fifteen feet of limestone. The place of the Hob- 

 son seam is about one hundred feet above the coal last mentioned. A 

 thin seam in this horizon was seen in the hill-side by. the road-side north 

 of Coal Run village, under a heavy white sandrock. A section at this 

 point is proximately as follows : 



Ft. In. 



1. Heavy white sandrock (not measured). 



2. Shale (not measured). 



3. Coal (very thin). 



4. Sandstone and shale 40 



5. Limestone 1 8 



6. Not exposed, except some limestone near top 30 to 40 



7. Coal (Coal Eun seam). 



Interval to Muskingum Eiver (estimated) 10 



The heavy white sandrock may be worthy of attention as a material 

 for glass-making. Selected portions would certainly be fine enough. 

 Some of it would, I think, answer an excellent purpose for hearthstones 

 for furnaces. The upper coal seam is of no value here, and probably no- 

 where in this region. In some of the townships south-west it is the 

 only seam found, but it is too thin for profitable mining. 



Several years ago portions of the skeleton of a huge mammoth were 

 dug up in the village of Beverly. Several large teeth in excellent pres- 

 ervation were found, and much of the skull ; but the latter being some- 

 what crumbling, after being kept for a time was thrown into the street 

 and crushed under wagon-wheels. As no skull of the mammoth has 

 ever been obtained in this country, so far as I know, the destruction of 

 this skull was a very serious loss to science. One of the teeth is pre- 

 served in the cabinet of Marietta College. A fine specimen of a shoulder- 

 blade of a mammoth was obtained by Dr. Bowen, of Waterford township, 

 from another location farther up the river, which he generously depos- 

 ited in the same cabinet. I have known of portions of quite a number 

 of different individuals of this extinct species of elephant which have 

 been found in Washington county. While the mammoth roamed he.re 

 in considerable numbers, I have not known of the finding of any bones 

 of the mastodon. In some parts of the West, on the other hand, the 



