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here to be in every direction; that is, that no two openings show the, 

 same pitch, and that they can hardly pronounce upon any decided dip. 

 The identity of the bed is proved by the presence of the limestone 

 roof, sulphur band, and clay parting. The following section shows the 

 strata in the hill at Equality : 



Ft. In. 



Soil and drift 25 



Sandstone 15 



Silicious shale 5 



-Limestone 1 4 6 



Shale 6 



Coal 2fo. 7 (with clay parting)... 4 



Fire-clay 6 



Shale, and massive sandstone 45 



Coal So. 6 1 G 



Sandy liag-stones, and light blue shale with iron-stones 68 



Blact shale 2 



Coal Xo. 5, in shaft at Ross's mill 5 



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About two miles, a little west of north, from Equality, No. 7 coal was 

 seen at low water of the North Fork of the Saline river, making a 

 descent in that direction of nearly one hundred feet ; it was traced 

 along the bank of the river for more than half a mile before it disap- 

 peared under the low lands to the northward. Coal was first mined in 

 this county at the above locality, and was hauled at an early day to 

 Equality over bad roads, before the fact was known that every family 

 in the town could, if they so desired it, have a coal mine in their own 

 yard. North of this locality no workable coal has been found in the 

 county. 



At Christmas ville, eight or nine miles north of Equality, in the north- 

 western part of the county, and where the bridge crosses the North 

 Fork of the Saline river on the road from Equality to Oarmi, there is 

 exposed in the bank of the river a few feet of argillaceous and siliceous 

 shales, containing a thin fossiliferous band of calcareous sandstone, as 

 shown in this section : 



Ft. In. 



Soil to the street of the village 10 



Yellow argillaceous shale, with iron-stones 5 



Ferruginous calcareous sandstone, with casts of fossil shells 3 



Schistose, gray sandstone 6 



Hard sandstone 8 



8chisto.se sandstone 1 



Bluish argillaceous shale, some coaly matter 3 



Low water, UorthFork of the Saline 



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The fossils found in the three-inch band of the above section are : 

 Aviculopecten occidentalis, Edmondia reniformis, Athyris subtilita, Pteri- 

 nea gibbosa, Myalina Swallovi, M. meliniformis, Eumicrotis Haivni, Mac- 

 rocheilus primigenius, Schizodus 8p f TurritellaJ Stephensana, Bellerophon 

 nodocarinatus, Allorisma Sp f Pleurophorus subcostatus, etc. 



