510 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
tributary of the Muskingum. The high lands are unusually rich and 
fertile, from the abundant limestone. | 
The Cumberland seam of coal seen at Cumberland, in Guernsey county, 
a little north of the Brookfield township line, has been traced into Mus- 
kingum county, where its relations to the Pomeroy seam are ascertained. 
This appears on Map No. X., accompanying Vol. I. of the final report 
of our survey. 
A mile south of the village of Cumberland we find, in Brookield town- 
ship, the Cumberland seam of coal at the mines of H. C. Hunter, Esq. 
In the hills south or south-east from these mines a section was taken, 
revealing the limestones and other strata above the coal. Other sections 
were taken to the east of Cumberland, showing the strata for two hun- 
dred and thirty-five feet below the coal. In a south-east direction from 
Cumberland the coal seam was found for three miles to rise at about the 
rate of thirty feet per mile. The full section taken near the north line 
of Brookfield township and in that vicinity is as follows: 
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(See Map XII., No. 7.) 
Four samples of coal were taken from the Hunter bank for analysis— 
No. 1 from near the bottom, No. 2 from upper part of the lower bench, 
No. 3 from middle bench, and No. 4 from top bench. 
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