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mined without a laborious investigation of the dip in this part of the 
township, which the slight value of the coal seam did not warrant. It is 
proximately in the line of the Newell’s Run uplift, but it will be seen, 
in the discussion of the geology of Newport tow neh, that this uplift 
flattens Be, rapidly to the north. 
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. 
This township lies east of Salem and north of Lawrence townships. 
The north-western part is drained by Pawpaw. Creek—a branch of Duck 
Creek—and the remaining portion is drained by tributaries of Little 
Muskingum River. The land is hilly, but the soil is generally good, 
there being often considerable limestone in the hills. 
The Salem “sandstone seam” of coal—the Cumberland seam—extends 
quite generally through the township. It is almost every where of good 
working thickness, and will afford an almost unlimited supply of fuel. 
The quality of the coal is fair. The seam shows the usual clay parting, 
which is quite variable in thickness. Over this coal is generally seen 
the same heavy sandrock which is seen in Salem, on the Hast Fork of 
Duck Creek. The seam is readily traced from the bank of Moses True, 
Hsq., along the waters of Crooked Run, where we also see the limestone 
group with the lower or Pomeroy seam of coal, thirty-two inces thick, 
into the high ridge which divides the waters of Crooked Run from Paw- | 
paw Creek. On the east side of this ridge, in the extreme north-west 
corner of Liberty, on a little branch of Pawpaw, we obtained the follow- 
ing geological section : 
Ft. In. 
1. Limestone (not measured). 
2. Sandstones and shales (not measured). 
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13. Limestone (not measured). 
(See Map XI., No. 27.). 
The upper seam of coal in the above section is the Hobson seam of the 
western part of the county.. The lower and thicker seam is the sand- 
stone seam, or the Cumberland seam. On the land of Wm. Hamilton, 
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