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Continuation of Column No 5. 

 TABLE V. 





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Coal Measures. 



1st. Bituminous Coal, abundant at Chesterfield, 

 near Richmond in Virginia, (resting on Granite,) 

 the upper layer of which contains fossil fish. j 



The Shales of Middletown, Connecticut, and of 

 Pompton and Bbontown, N. Jersey, are the same, 

 and contain the same fossil fish as the above. ! 



In the Ohio valley is the largest coal field in the 

 world, this coal contains more Bitumen than com- j 

 mon. The shales which accompany it abound 

 with impressions of plants, such as Sagillaria, Ca- 

 lamites, and Lepidodendrons, &c, &c. At Pictou, < 

 in Nova Scotia, and at Newfoundland are also j 

 coal-fields. j 



a. 





2. Anthracite. The Black Anthracite Coal of ] 



= 





Pennsylvania, is the largest bed of this variety of j 









coal in the known world. The principal localities 





are Susquehanna, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Lacka- j 



§ 





wanna. 



~ 





It is accompanied by shale with impressions of 



X 





plants, and rests on Argeliite and roofing slate. 







3. The Blue Anthracite of Portsmouth Rhode 



c 





Island, is accompanied by Quartz and Asbestos and 



!-P 





takes its color from Graphite or Plumbago. The 



3 





shales are accompanied by the usual fossil plants, j 



U 





and it rests upon Gray wacke and Talcose Slate. 



4. The Worcester, Mass., Anthracite is nearly 

 the same as the Rhode Island, but has a larger 

 quantity of Graphite. 





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Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone. 



The localities of this series are in the valley of 

 the Ohio. On the road near the Mount Vernon 

 Post Office, in Kentucky, are many fossil Polyparia, 

 measuring from 12 to 14 feet in diameter, and which 

 project from the rock nearly one foot, the main 

 rock having been worn from around them by time. 



- 



22 



Old Red Sandstone. 



-/ 





West side of the Hudson River, underlying the i 



, = 





Palisades and other parts of New Jersey. 



IX 





Underlying the Trap of East and West Rocks, J 







New Haven, Connecticut. 



^ 





These localities contain no fossils, but at Bloss- j 



te 





burgh in Pennsylvania, is found the Holoptychus ; 



1 





Nobillissimus. ; 



