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much as eighteen inches in thickness, occurs at another locality under 

 a limestone similar to this, and the same may possibly be found here 

 by digging a few feet below the rock. The limestone has been quarried 

 here as well as on the adjoining farm for building stone aud for lime, 

 and ranges from two to three feet in thickness. 



On Mr. J. H. Thomas' place, on sec. 17, T. 1 S., R. 8 B., a thin coal 

 has been found below a limestoue similar to that above mentioned. 

 The coal was opened a few years since by sinking a shaft some 15 or 20 

 feet in depth, and the coal is reported to have beeu 18 iuches thick, and 

 the limestone two feet. The shaly portion of the limestoue contained 

 a few fossils, among which we identified Orthis carbonaria, Spirifer 

 cameratus, Chonetes Verneuilianus and Lophophyllum proliferum. 



On Mr. E. Pilcher's land, on sec. 20 of the same township, a bed of 

 black shale crops out on a hill side at an elevation considerably above 

 the coal shaft above mentioned, aud was penetrated to the depth of 

 fifteen feet in search of coal, but without finding it. On the opposite 

 side of the hill, aud below the level of the black shale, a calcareo- 

 silicious rock has been quarried for building stone. It has a slaty 

 structure, aud is tilled with fragments of broken plants, and appears 

 to be the exact equivalent of the arenaceous limestone found at Mr. 

 Boden's place two miles and a half south of Flora. The bituminous 

 shale at Mr. Pilcher's place contains rounded bowlders of black lime- 

 stone that weather to a bluish dove-color, and similar concretions were 

 seen at the exposure south of Flora, which leaves no reasonable doubt 

 of the identity of the beds at these points. A short distance south of 

 Mr. Pilcher's land limestone was formerly quarried for lime-burning. 

 but the outcrop is now covered up. The relative position of the beds 

 above described is indicated iu the following section : 



Ft. In. 



Bituminous sbale, with concretions of black limestone 15 to 20 



Slaty arenaceous limestone, with broken plants 2 to 4 



Sbale partially exposed 10 to 15 



Dai k limestone 2 



Sbale, (thickness not determined) 



Coa' 1 6 



This is probably coal Xo. 13 of the general section. 



On Mrs. Williams' place on the K W. qr. of sec. 29, T. 1 S., R. 7 E., 

 about seven miles north-west of Fairfield, there is an outcrop of 15 to 

 20 feet of sandy and argillaceous shale, containing numerous bands of 

 kidney iron ore of good quality. A thin coal has been passed through 

 in digging wells in this neighborhood, and either underlays these shales 

 entirely or is intercalated in them. This outcrop closely resembles that 

 at McDaxiels' place near the north line of the county, hereafter to be 

 mentioned, and "the well water in this vicinity is impregnated with 

 epsom salts, like wells and springs at the locality above mentioned. 

 Between this locality and Fairfield, and about three miles a little south 



