MONROE COUNTY. 585 



Besides the seam supposed to be the upper Barnesville, or Cumberland 

 seam, mined by Mr. Jones, near Clarington, and by Mr. Mehl, on Negro 

 Run, there are in Salem two well-defined seams higher in the hills— one 

 about one hundred feet above Mehl's seam, and the other about seventy 

 feet higher. Both of these have been opened, but are little worked. 



In passing up Negro Run we find on the land of Abraham Long, sec- 

 tion 2, both of these seams. The geological section is as follows : 



Ft. In. 



1. Coal 2 



2. Shales, with a little sandstone 70 



3. Coal 2 10 



4. Slate parting 2 



5. Coal 8 



6. Not seen, probably clay 3 



7. Hard blue slate 6 



8. Blue, sandy, bituminous limestone 8 



9. Blue slate 2 



10. Limestone, weathering buff 2 



(Map XIII., No. 19.) 



SWITZERLAND TOWNSHIP. 



This is the north-eastern township of the county. The land is gener- 

 ally high, and, from the ridge running east and west through the center 

 of the township, streams flow to the north into Captina Creek, to the 

 east into the Ohio, and to the south into Sunfish. The soil is largely 

 formed of disintegrated shales and sandstones, and is naturally less rich 

 than the more limestone soils, but the German and Swiss farmers have 

 done wonders in its cultivation, and there is no better farming in the 

 State. Almost every farm has its small vineyard, and other fruits are 

 successfully cultivated. There is an air of neatness and thrift quite in 

 contrast with the slovenly character of much of our native American 

 farming in Southern Ohio. 



On the land of Jacob Davis, in section 3 of range 4, is seen in the bed 

 of a stream a seam of coal, reported to be four feet thick, which is the 

 same seam as the upper one on the land of Abraham Long, in section 2, 

 Salem township. The coal is somewhat slaty. It is given in Map 

 XIIL, No. 22. Above this seam of coal no other coal was seen in climb- 

 ing three hundred and sixty-eight feet to the top of a high knob on the 

 farm of Charles Dota, about two miles to the north or north-east of Mr. 

 Davis's, in section 3. On the summit of the knob are several feet of 

 crumbling limestone. Below the limestone are red and yellow shales, 

 below which is a heavy sandrock, nearly fifty feet thick. (See Map XIIL, 



