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The direction of the dip is north 10° east, at tbe rate of about three 

 inches to the yard. In the decomposing roof shale, at the mouth of tins 

 mine, Aviculopecten rectilaterarius and Carclinia ? fragilis were seen, but 

 they were too friable to bear handling. As the strata rise, from Bos- 

 well's, in the direction of the Saline river, No. 7 is found high up in the 

 ridge on the Independent Coal Company's property, and No. 5 outcrops 

 near the base. On the property of Mr. Hines, section 13, township 10, 

 range 8, on Eagle creek, No. 7 is seen outcropping in the bed of the 

 creek, but following to the south some two huudred yards, on the rise 

 of the strata, it is found thirty-three feet above the creek, where it has 

 been mined to a limited extent by Mr. Hines, for fuel to run his saw 

 mill. At these outcrops the overlying limestone could not be seen ; 

 however, Mr. Hines informed me that it made its appearance at the end 

 of his drift, where I was uuable to see it for want of lights, but I fully 

 satisfied myself of the identity of the bed by the clay parting and sul- 

 phur band, the former ten inches from the bottom, and the latter a few 

 inches below the top. Mr. Hines informed me that at the creek he 

 bored forty feet below this seam, and passed through a lower coal that 

 was two and a half feet thick; this latter is in the position of No. 6. 

 Along Eagle creek, westward to the county line, No. 7 has been reached 

 in wells, and can be traced in a north-east direction to Bowlsville. At 

 Bowlsville, on sections 8 and 9, township 10, range 9, in the range called 

 Coal Hill, Nos. 7, 6 and 5 outcrop. Coal No. 7 outcrops on both sides 

 of Coal Hill, and has been opened in a number of places at various ele- 

 vations above high water of the Ohio river of 1848, as determined by 

 E. F. Lee, Civil Engineer. 



The following descriptions of these openings are given to show that 

 no reliance can be placed on the local dip of a coal seam as a means of 

 identifying the beds over any great extent of country : 



At the Mason entry into No. 7 coal, on the north part of section 9, the 

 seam is ninety-eight feet above high water of the Ohio, is three feet ten 

 inches thick, has a clay parting of two inches, about one foot from the 

 bottom, and a thin band of sulphur near the top. Above the seam is : 



Ft. In. 



Shale 1 6 



Dark limestone 4 



Black bituminous shale 8 



Coal No. 7 3 10 



Fire-clay ? 



One hundred yards to the north-east, near the line between sections 

 9 and 4, seventy-eight feet above high water, there is another opening 

 showing a dip of the strata, on this part of Coal hill, to the north-east 

 at the rate of twenty feet in four hundred of horizontal distance. 



