154 F a . REPORT OF PROGRESS. E. W. CLAYPOj.E. 



t. Sandstone, — 



h. Thin yellow sandstone, (8 inches,) 0' 8' 



g. Coal, (1 inch,) ... 1" 



/. Thin, smooth, soft, green shale, (6 inches,) 6" 



e. Slaty coal, soft, (1 inch,) 1" 



d. Red, rubbly shale, — 



c. Green, rubbly shale, — 



b. Thin coal seam, (1 inch,) 1" 



a. Green, smooth, sandy shale with yellow ochre and plants. 



No coal of marketable quality was obtained from this 

 opening. It is soft, and has white shale seams or flakes in 

 it. I was informed that it was equally soft at the end of 

 the level. 



On the left side, at the entrance, is a bed full of plant re- 

 mains, but they are injured by compression and slaty cleav- 

 age. After working for more than two hours, I failed to get 

 a single piece that I could recognize with certainty. There 

 was little to be obtained, except the long-wrinkled or rib- 

 bed grass-like impressions, probably the leaves of a large 

 Catamites. In the wall of the tunnel is an impression of a 

 Calami te, about three feet long and six inches in thickness 

 or rather breadth, and another of smaller size is below it. 

 A third I extricated in part from the sandstone wall of the 

 northern opening. These were probably the stems from 

 which the enormous quantity of leaves that are found in the 

 same beds have fallen. They resemble Catamites trans- 

 itionis, (Goep.,) but are not in condition for identification. 

 Strongly-ribbed (with only one rib in the middle) casts are 

 common here, which may be small stems or even leaves. 



In the bed marked h is a heavy black ferruginous con- 

 glomerate, with pebbles (concretions?) of red and yellow 

 ochre, and others of a hard sandy clay stone. It is a lean 

 iron ore, but of no value. 



There is no evidence of the growth of these plants on the 

 sp<>r where their remains occur. No traces of roots of any 

 kind appeared. From their position in the shale, from their 

 broken and comminuted condition, it seems certain that they 

 were drifted to the spot and buried. The growth must 

 have been monotonous, consisting almost wholly of one 

 species. 



