152 J. J. STEVENSON CARBONIFEROUS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



Feet. Inches 



5. Coal bed 9 11 



6. Interval 141 



7. Lewiston coal bed 5 10 



8. Interval 123 



9. Coal bed 3 8 



10. Interval 184 



11. Winifrede coal bed 4 



The identification of the Lewiston and Winifrede beds is taken by Mr 

 d'Invilliers to be correct, but the relations of the other beds are very un- 

 certain. The intervals seem to suggest that coals numbers 1 and 3 belong 

 to the Conemaugh. No measurements are available for 18 miles down 

 the river, where one finds what appears to be the Brookville-Stockton bed, 

 4 feet thick and underlying 155 feet of sandstone and shales. A somewhat 

 higher bed was seen by Mr Campbell at 6 miles south from Charleston, 

 belonging at the horizon of the Black Flint, while at a little distance away 

 is a bed thought by him to be near the place of the North Coalburg. Mr 

 Campbell does not find the number 5 Block coal here, though he recog- 

 nizes it at a short distance eastward. 



In northeastern Lincoln county, on Cobbs creek, a branch of Little 

 Coal river, Mr dTnvilliers measured: 



Feet. Inches 



1. Sandstones, shales, and red beds 400 



2. Coal and shale 6 



3. Sandstone 35 



4. Coal bed Blossom 



5. Sandstone, fine conglomerate at bottom . 60 



6. Coal bed and partings, splint '4 3 



7. Massive sandstone 35 to 45 



8. Coal bed, splint, about 4 



9. Sandstone 40 



10. Coal bed 3 6 



At 3 or 4 miles farther down the river, Mr Campbell found three coal 

 beds, 54, 30, and 97 inches thick, partings included, separated by inter- 

 vals of 120 and 20 feet. He places the lowest coal near the horizon of 

 the Black Flint, in this agreeing with Mr d'Invilliers, who is inclined to 

 look for the place of the Flint at a little way above his lower splint bed. 

 The highest bed in each case is close to the place of the Upper Freeport. 

 The Guyandotte flows northwardly across western Lincoln. Mr Camp- 

 bell reports an important coal bed in the southern part of the county, com- 

 ing up from the river near Sheridan. His measurements and those made 

 many years ago by Dr. John Locke show it is about 5 feet at Sheridan, 

 but increasing southwardl}', so that at one locality it is about 10 feet with- 

 out serious partings. Mr Campbell places this at about 70 feet below 



