GALLATIK COUNTY. 203 



Ft. In. 



No. 35. CoalNo.l 1 ft. 8 in. to 3 



No. 36. Argillaceous and siliceous shale 70 



Xo. 37. Conglomerate sandstone 110 



No. 3S. Bluish argillaceous shale (Lower Carboniferous) 15 



No. 39. Thin coal (Lower Carboniferous) 4 



No 40. Argillaceous shales (Lower Carboniferous) 10 



No. 41. Covered space with sandstone (Lower Carboniferous) 60 



No. 42. Chester limestone (Lower Carboniferous) 55 



No. 43. Covered space 40 



!N"o. 1 or "Battery -rock coal" is not worked in Gallatin county, and 

 no exposure of the seam could be recognized with any degree of cer- 

 tainty. It is thought probable that the thin seam of coal-rash shown 

 in the horizontal section of the disturbed strata in front of Shawnee- 

 town, and a thin seam, opened some years ago by Mr. Baker, on sec. 36, 

 T. 9, B. 9, west of Shawneetown, and near the eastern terminus of Gold 

 Hill, maybe that seam ; but no reliable evidence was found to establish 

 this conclusion. In the decomposing shales above the rash-coal in the 

 river bank at Shawneetown, a few fossils were seen, that are thought 

 to be characteristic of much higher strata, as Bellerophon carbonaris, 

 B. per-carinatus, Productus longispinus and Spirifer cameratus; but they 

 crumbled to pieces on being removed from their matrix. If the actual 

 horizon of this coal is above No. 1 in the vertical section, and near the 

 horizon of X o. 7, as its fossils and the associated limestone seem to indi- 

 cate, it shows a remarkable thinning out of the intermediate strata, and a 

 total absence of workable coal, for the Conglomerate can not be more 

 than one hundred and ten or one hundred and thirty feet below it, pro- 

 vided that the latter rock is referable to the Battery-rock Conglomerate. 

 I am aware that the coal seams thin out to the northward of "Gold Hill," 

 but at the same time I believe that the associated strata increase, 

 instead of diminish in thickness in that direction. 



The opening to the thin coal west of Shawneetown (section 36) in 

 "Gold Hill" was entirely filled with rubbish, and no good view could be 

 had of it. The strata are all basseting to the north at an angle of 20° 

 to 40°, which renders it almost impossible to work a coal from such an 

 outcrop. Mr. Beck, who had been, I believe, interested in the mine, 

 accompanied me to the locality, and he expressed the opinion that the 

 seam was found to be two feet thick in the opening. Judging from what 

 I could see, the coal is of an inferior quality, and resembles very much 

 the coal in front of Shawneetown. The following section will show its 

 position in the ridge, commencing from the high water of the Ohio 

 river, which point was determined by the drift wood along the foot of 

 the ridge : 



Ft. 



Covered slope and soil. . .- 10 



Buff sandstone 10 



Sandy shale and flagstone - 100 



Blue, soft shal e ,2 



