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mined without a laborious investigation of the dip in this part of the 

 township, which the slight value of the coal seam did not warrant. It is 

 proximately in the line of the NewelPs Run uplift, but it will be seen, 

 in the discussion of the geology of Newport township, that this uplift 

 flattens very rapidly to the north. 



LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. 



This township lies east of Salem and north of Lawrence townships. 

 The north-western part is drained by Pawpaw Creek — a branch of Duck 

 Creek — and the remaining portion is drained by tributaries of Little 

 Muskingum River. The land is hilly, but the soil is generally good, 

 there being often considerable limestone in the hills. 



The Salem "sandstone seam" of coal — the Cumberland seam — extends 

 quite generally through the township. It is almost every where of good 

 working thickness, and will afford an almost unlimited supply of fuel. 

 The quality of the coal is fair. The seam shows the usual clay parting, 

 which is quite variable in thickness. Over this coal is generally seen 

 the same heavy sandrock which is seen in Salem, on the East Fork of 

 Duck Creek. The seam is readily traced from the bank of Moses True, 

 Esq., along the waters of Crooked Run, where we also see the limestone 

 group with the lower or Pomeroy seam of coal, thirty-two inces thick, 

 into the high ridge which divides the waters of Crooked Run from Paw- 

 paw Creek. On the east side of this ridge, in the extreme north-west 

 corner of Liberty, on a little branch of Pawpaw, we obtained the follow- 

 ing geological section : 



Ft. In. 



1. Limestone (not measured). 



2. Sandstones and shales (not measured). 



3. Clay 3 



4. Coal 1 



5. Clay v 1 



6. Limestone 5 



7. Sandstone and shale (estimated) 37 



8. Heavy sandrock 50 



9. Clay shale 1 to 2 



10. Coal not seen in detail (reported) 6 



11. Fire-clay and clay shale 6 



12. Sandstone 10 



13. Limestone (not measured). 



(See Map XI., No. 27.). 



The upper seam of coal in the above section is the Hobson seam of the 

 western part of the county. The lower and thicker seam is the sand- 

 stone seam, or the Cumberland seam. On the land of Wm, Hamilton, 



