NOBLE COUNTY. 513 



On the land of Leonard McKee, near the east line of the township, we 

 find the coal with two deposits of limestone above it. The section is as 

 follows : 



Ft. In. 



1. Group of limestone layers (not measured). 



2. Not exposed 25 



3. Limestone 2 ? 



4. Coal • 8 



5. Clay 1 3 



6. Coal, Cumberland seam 5 



The coal is, by barometer, a little over three hundred feet above the 

 Duck Creek bridge at Newburg. The coal is well developed in all the 

 hills east of Newburg, and east of Macksburg, but is reported as less 

 thick on the highlands west of Duck Creek. On the hill' west of Mr. 

 Fulton Caldwell's, on the land of Mr. Aranda Woodford, the same seam 

 of coal is reported to be three feet thick. 



Here, by barometer, the coal is two hundred and ninety-five feet above 

 Blake's bridge. Above the coal, perhaps sixty or seventy feet, is the 

 usual group of buff and blue limestones. 



The summit of the hill on the road near Wm. Goochnour's, two and 

 one-half miles south-west of Blake's bridge, was found, by barometer, to 

 be four hundred and twenty feet high. On the summit are shales, below 

 which is a layer of iron ore, perhaps three inches thick. Below this, 

 ten feet of red shales, succeeded by twelve and a half feet of limestones, 

 interstratified with shale. 



On the land of Mr. Caldwell, about a mile below his house, we find 

 fifty feet of sandy shales, forming cliffs along the bank of Duck Creek. 

 These shales rise to the north, and underneath them appears a stratum 

 of limestone a foot or more thick, highly fossiliferous, which for some 

 miles rises faster than the stream. At a point once called "Soak'em" 

 -it is more than fifty feet above the creek. Seven feet underneath the 

 limestone is a thin seam of coal. A geological section at this point is as 

 follows : ^ T 



Ft. In. 



1. Sandy shales (not measured). 



2. Fossiliferous limestone, Cambridge limestone 1 



3. Black shale, fossiliferous ? ° 



4. Coal 1 ° 



5. Clay shales— yellow above, red below 22 ° 



'6. Clay, with nodular limestone 8 



7. Shale 15 ° 



Bed of Duck Creek. (See Map. XII., No. 30.) 



This fossiliferous limestone is, I have no doubt, the Cambridge lime, 

 stone, and is nowhere to be seen in the valley of Duck Creek south of 

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