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McMahcm Creek the interval between the two seams ranged from eighty 

 to ninety feet. 



The upper Bellair, or upper Barnesville, seam is one of wide distribu- 

 tion in the Second Geological District. It is the Cumberland seam of 

 Guernsey, Noble, and Washington counties, and is traced through Mor- 

 gan into Athens, where it is pretty well developed on Big Run, in Rome 

 township. It was not seen in Meigs county. 



My associates on the survey in the First Geological District have 

 classified the coals on the Ohio River, in this county, in the descending 

 order, as follows : 



Coal No. 10, No. 9, No. 8c, No 86, No. 8a, No. 8 (Bellair, or lower 

 Barnesville). 



We trace the same seams in the same order through all the high lands 

 of the Barnesville region. We could find no coalescing of seams in going 

 from the Ohio River west, by which 8a, 86, 8c, and 9 unite with 8. Mr. 

 Bundy and myself have found all these on the west side of the Barnes- 

 ville ridge. For example, 8a is seen faintly in a railroad cut west of 

 Barnesville ; on the turnpike north of Barnesville ; on the turnpike 

 between Flushing and Rock Hill ; on " Belmont Ridge," in Flushing 

 township, and another points. It even extends through several counties. 

 No. 86 is distinctly seen at all the above-named localities. No. 8c is the 

 upper Barnesville seam, and is the Cumberland s"eam, which can be fol- 

 lowed through Guernsey, Noble, Washington, Muskingum, Morgan, and 

 Athens counties, always holding the same relation to No. 8, or the Pom- 

 eroy seam. No. 9 is constantly found in western and north-western Bel- 

 mont. Traces of it are seen farther west. It is doubtless the Hobson 

 seam of Washington county. 



In Belmont county there are about sixteen miles of Ohio River border 

 in the Second Geological District, i. e., below the mouth of McMahon 

 Creek. The total fall of the Ohio River in this distance is 11.066 feet, 

 or about an average of 8.28 inches per mile. The fall is, however, un- 

 equally distributed between the ripples and pools; the former having 

 10.41 feet, and the latter 0.656 inches. There are 4.327 miles of ripples 

 and 11.673 miles of pools, seven feet deep in low water. 



WAEEEN TOWNSHIP. 



This township is located in the western part of the county, and is 

 traversed by the Central Ohio Railroad. The township is drained by the 

 waters of Captina Creek, flowing into the Ohio, on the south-east, by 

 Stillwater Creek, which flows into the Tuscarawas, on the north, and by 



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