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bowlders of considerable size. la the vicinity of the Little Wabash, 

 north of Carmi, these seemed to be more abundant than elsewhere, and 

 one was seen near the north line of the county, and about a mile east of 

 the ford on the Little Wabash, that was fully four feet in its longest 

 diameter, by two feet or more iu the opposite direction. This is the 

 most southerly point in the State where bowlders of this size have been 

 seen. 



Coal Measures . 



The stratified rocks of this county belong to the lower part of the 

 upper Coal Measures, and the lowest beds appearing in the county are 

 to be seen in the bluffs of the Little Wabash, in the vicinity of New 

 Haven and near Carmi. these two points being on nearly the same geo- 

 logical level. The New Haven limestone appears to be identical with 

 the lowest limestone seen in Clark county, which there lays about 

 seventy-five to eighty feet above coal No. 7. Here the space is probably 

 a hundred and fifty to two hundred feet or more, with two thin coals 

 intervening between the limestone and the main coals below. In the 

 solid portions of this limestone fossils are comparatively rare, the only 

 species we were able to find in an hour's search at New Haven being 

 Spirifer earner atus, S. plano-convexus, Productus Prattenianus, P. longispi- 

 nus, Terebratuhi bovidens, Rhynchonella Osagensis, Platyostoma Peoriense., 

 joints of Crinoiclea, etc. The rock is hard and brittle, and weathers to 

 a rusty-brown color. The section in the vicinity of New Haven, com- 

 mencing at the base with this limestone and extending north along the 

 small branches putting into the Little Wabash for about two miles and 

 a half to land adjoining Mr. R. W. Boyd, and belonging to the Jones' 

 heirs, is as follows : 



Ft. In. 



No. 1. Sandstone, forming the bed rock on top of the hills, and penetrated by Mr. Boyd, in 



his -well 13 



Xo. 2. Sandstone and sandy shale, passing downward into arg. shale (partial exposure). . .40 to 50 



Xo. 3. Ferro-argillaceous limestone, with fossils 3 



Xo. 4. Ferruginous shale, "with fossils .- 2 



Xo. 5. Chocolate-brown calc. sandstone, with fossils 1 6 



Xo. 6. Dark-colored shale 2 to 3 



Xo. 7. Coal 2 



No. 8. Shalyfireclay 2 6 



SVj. 9. Hard sandstone, partly in heavy beds 4 to 6 



Xo. 10. Shale and thin bedded sandstone 6 to 8 



Xo. 11. Space covered, probably not more than ...15 to 20 



Xo. 12. Xew Haven limestone 3 to 4 



The three inch band of ferruginous limestone, No. 3 of the above sec- 

 tion, contains numerous well preserved fossils, and we obtained from it 

 Pleurotomaria Grayvillensis, Bellerophon carbonarius, B. Montfortianus, 

 Euomplialus sab-rugosus, Macrocheilus inhabilis, Nucula ventricosa, and 



