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A mile tip stream the coal is twelve feet' above ttie water in the river. 

 One mile south of Shelbyville the coal is at the water's edge, and we 

 have : 



Ft. In. 



1 Saudy shales 55 



2 Coal, thiii seam .0-2 



3 Calcareous shales, fossiliferous .- 1 to 2 



4 Bituminous coal 2 



Two hundred yards down stream a sandstone begins in the lower 

 pnrt of No. 1 and gradually thickens to four feet. 



The following are the results of observations on Eobiuson's creek. 

 At a coal bank on the S. hf. of the S. W. qr. of sec. 21, T. 11 N., E. 

 3 E., the section is : 



Ft. In. 



1. Gray sandstone 25 



2 Ferruginous bed „ 5 



3 Blackshale 10 



4 Coal , 2 8 



One hundred yards south of the last locality : 



Ft. In. 



1 . Limestone with thin lamina? of coal traversing the lower part ' 5 



2 Ochrey ferruginous stratum : 5 



3. Blue and dove-colored clay shales 4 



4. Coal 2* 



The hills at this place are about fifty feet high. Near the railroad in 

 the south part of the S. W. qr. of sec. 17, T. il N., E. 3 E., at William 

 Howard's : 



Ft. In. 



1. SaDdstone 



2. Dark gray calcareous shale thinning out ; at the old opeDing it appears forty feet from 



the entrance 2 



3. CoaL 18 



At -Minto's, a short distance north : 



Ft. In. 



1. Sandstone 



2. Ferruginous conglomerate 1 to 4 



3. Dove-colored clay shales IS 



4 Coal 18 



5 Fire clay 15 



G. Hard limestone 2 



One hundred and fifty yards further up : 



Ft. In. 

 1 Sandstone 



2. Calcareo-bituminons shale 4 



3. Coal 20 



4. Fire-clay 



One mile west the sandstone appears in a branch on the north side of 

 the railroad, and further up the branch there is thirty feet of deep blue 

 argillaceous limestone. 



At Smith's coal bank on sec. 5, T. 11 N., E. 3E., the coal is capped by 

 about forty feet of thick bedded soft gray and brown sandstone. Occa- 

 sionally there rests upon the coal about four inches of bituminous or 



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