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becomes harder again near the roof; it is rather pyritous, but as it will 
cost nothing to take it down, when the cannel is taken out, it may be 
a source of profit to the operator. 
The same conditions prevail at the Lyman bank on the northern 
side of the ridge; the coal presents the same section and same general 
character, but is much more easy to mine. From this bank and that 
of Mr. Jas. Sharpless, near by, the sections were taken which led Prof. 
Hodge to pronounce it the Lower Mercer coal. From a consideration 
of the section at these two places only, his conclusion is a natural one. 
In this section the two upper elements are in their regular order and 
interval, but the remarkable substitution of the sands and shales in 
place of the Lower Mercer Horizon is immediately apparent. The 
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