1874.] 189 [Whittlesey. 



by ten or fifteen feet, wlrieh is nothing unusual. All the way from 

 Linton, eight or nine miles distant, coming towards Bridge 42, the Strip 

 and Creek veins continue to be visible close together, and conformable. 

 It is not certain that the Rogers and the Nisely beds do continue thus 

 far, but at Irondale, two miles below, they are respectively 250' and 

 330 / A. If c exists there, it corresponds in stratification most nearly 

 with No. 2, at Hart's. No. 1, or the Salineville Big Seam, may be 

 the same as a, or as b, or it may be neither. Even in this short 

 space some of the beds thin out and disappear. At Hart's there is a 

 bare bluff rising from the railroad track up to an old opening 50 feet 

 above, and no intermediate seam of coal is visible. As yet no bed has 

 been found, or sought for, below No. 1, at this place. To force No. 2, 

 on the north, down to a or b, or to bring No. 1 up to connect with d, 

 on the south, and call both of them No. 6, are equally wild conclu- 

 sions. 



It may be conjectured that the bed 1, 1, 1, at Bridge 42, represents 

 one of the beds near the track at Clark's, a or b. The latter beds are 

 so near together, and are so nearly on a level, that farther examina- 

 tion is necessary to connect them with certainty. If 1, 1, 1, corres- 

 ponds with either aa or bb, it would follow that 2, 2, and the Rogers 

 seam are the same. In that case the Nisely great seam, 100 feet 

 higher or more, may exist on the hills, near the top, in a thinner 

 condition, and be represented by the upper thin seam at the Empire 

 mine, near Salineville, three miles northwest. Should this prove to 

 be true, there is an approach to harmony in the groups ; but if the 

 Salineville " Great Seam " is No. 6, the Strip is No. 7, and the Nisely 

 seam No. 8. 



Radial No. 6 : Course south, 82° east. 



Near Franklin, Columbiana Co., 530' (W.) ; New Lisbon, 5 miles, 

 515' ; mouth of Yellow Creek, 15 miles, 25 3' (N.) ; descent in 20 

 miles, 267'. 



In the " Whan Seam," next below No. 6, there is at New Lisbon a 

 local dip to the northeast of 13' per mile. If this represents the side 

 of a general undulation, its axis must lie in the direction of north- 

 west and southeast, at right angles to the Alleghany uplifts, and 

 therefore not due to them. 



From Rochester (553') to Lynchburg (560') and Hanover 549', 

 moving easterly, No. 6 is substantially level, as it should be, in the 



