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common in the roof shales of this coal on the opposite side of the Ohio, 

 and on Tradewater river. 



The following section obtained along the river, commencing at Battery- 

 rock ferry and extending np stream nearly to the month of Saline river, 

 will serve to show the position of No. 1 coal and the conglomerate, 

 together with the change of level at the various places given. 



Section at Battery-rock ferry : 



Ft. In. 



Soil, clay drift, and covered space 50 



ilassive gray sandstone, (hearth stone) 20 



Shale, mostly silicious 40 



Coal, No. 1 1 ft. 4 in. to 1 10 



Silicioas shales, passing down into flagstone 70 



Conglomerate, upper member 60 



Thin coal, wedged in ; 4 



Conglomerate, lower member 50 



Low- water of the Ohio 



292 2 



Three-quarters of a mile above the ferry, in a north-west direction, ]ST. 

 40° W., the top of the Conglomerate is just at the water's edge, while 

 three-quarters of a mile again above this, and half a mile below Sellers' 

 paper mill, the base is eighty feet above the river, where the following 

 section was taken : 



Ft. In. 



Conglomerate sandstone, forming a cliif _ ...35 



(Shows 70 feet thick at Sellers' paper mill, where large masses have broken off and tumbled 

 to the plain below ; one block, larger and more conspicuous than the others, has received 

 the name of " Stack Eock.") 

 Blue argillaceous shales, with numerous bands of carbonate of iron, comprising altogether 

 from one to one and a half feet of good iron ore; one band, four to sis: inches thick, con- 

 tains a number of imperfect casts of fossil shells : Atkyris subtilita, Macrocheilus inhabilis ? 

 Spirifer cameralus? small Bellerophon, N-ucida and a fragment of a Gyathnphylloid coral. ..14 



Coal, reported from a bore 8 



Sandy and argillaceous shale 7 



Covered, to low- water :58 



114 8 



Half a mile above Sellers' paper mill, in a direction N. 47° W., coal 

 TSo. 1 is ninety -five feet above low- water, and may be seen above and 

 below the mouth of coal creek ; and one-half mile above the last locality, 

 in a direction N. 61° "W., it is one hundred and twenty-two feet above 

 low-water, at T. Bees & Co.'s mines. The general dip of the strata is 

 north, about 20° east, and the irregularity in the elevation of the Con- 

 glomerate and coal along the river bluff is mainly due to the position 

 of the exposure being on one or the other side of the strike line, and 

 furnishes no evidence of more than one seam of coal above the con- 

 glomerate at the localities here cited.* 



* Since this report was written I visited this locality in company with G-. E. Sellers, Esq., of 

 Bowlesville, and traced the bluffs carefully from Battery rock to the mouth of the Saline. From this 

 examination I am confident there are two seams of coal above the Battery rock coal outcropping 

 between these points, which either represent coals Nos. 2 and 3 of the general section given on page 

 2 et geq. of this volume, or else they are local seams that have not been seen elsewhere. 



A. H. W. 



