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measured. It is probably the equivalent of the Woodsfield seam. The 

 upper seam presents the following subdivisions : 



Ft. In. 



1. Shale 3 



2. Coal 6 



3. Clay 3 



4. Coal 1 8 



The quality of the coal of the lower bench is good. This seam is re- 

 ported to be worked at another point, and found to be four feet thick. 

 This measurement probably includes the clay parting. A seam of hard 

 blue limestone, two feet thick, is seen about one hundred and forty feet 

 below the upper coal. A very long section was taken at Baresville, ex- 

 tending to the top of a very high hill, about two miles from the village, 

 which disclosed four seams of coal. The lowest one, probably the Woods- 

 field seam, is about forty-five feet above low water in the Ohio River. 

 This is two feet thick. The next is one hundred and ninety-three feet 

 higher, with nine inches of coal in the upper bench, separated from the 

 lower bench of two feet by four inches of clay parting. About one hun- 

 oVd and forty-seven feet higher is the blossom of another seam of coal. 

 Nearly three hundred feet higher, and on the summit of the hill, is an- 

 other blossom of coal. This hill, by the barometer, is six hundred and 

 eeventy-nine feet high from the low-water level of the Ohio River. 

 About one hundred and thirty-five feet below the top of the hill are six 

 feet of limestone, the lower two of which are cement limestone. Eight- 

 een feet lower are two feet of sandy limestone. This section is seen on 

 Map XIII., No. 11. It is for the most part a weary alternation of sand- 

 Stones and shales. 



