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There is no trace of a fire-clay either above or below the 

 coal seams. 



The coal is soft, and crumbles to powder between the 

 fingers. No great quantity appears to have been taken out. 

 No one seems to know much about it, and all the spoil has 

 been removed and used for embanking the canal. 



A few feet below (south of) the coal is a mass of yellow 

 ochreous shales, 8 or 10 feet thick. 



The position of this coal is about the middle of the Po- 

 cono sandstone, and corresponds in a general way to a por- 

 tion of the group of coal measures cut by the railroad tun- 

 nel through Sideling hill in Huntingdon county, described 

 in Report F, page 209, 1878. Had the money been spent in 

 running a tunnel into the hill across the strata, much might 

 have been learned of their contents. 



