NOBLE COUNTY. 513 
On the land of Leonard McKee, near the east line of the township, we 
find the coal with two deposits of limestone above it. The section is as 
follows: 
Ft. In. 
1. Group of limestone layers (not measured). 
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SRO MMESTOIME Mare ea INERe a MAAN NK eey uetidscuieeilaseclie select eae scleasaaeitssssisecsss ces 2? 
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6, Clo, Cian oeiellen ae) Steet) eodoscey dosoodond banb0onge.n6600 o0duoRd adennobde dopNBoued 5 0 
The coal is, by barometer, a little over three hundred feet above the 
Duck Creek bridge at Newburg. The coal is well developed in all the 
hills east of Newburg, and east of Macksburg, but is reported as less 
thick on the highlands west of Duck Creek. On the hill west of Mr. 
Fulton Caldwell’s, on the land of Mr. Aranda Woodford, the same seam 
of coal is reported to be three feet thick. 
Here, by barometer, the coal is two hundred and ninety-five feet above 
Blake’s bridge. Above the coal, perhaps sixty or seventy feet, is the 
usual group of buff and blue limestones. 
The summit of the hill on the road near Wm. Goochnour’s, two and 
one-half miles south-west of Blake’s bridge, was found, by barometer, to 
be four hundred and twenty feet high. On the summit are shales, below 
which is a layer of iron ore, perhaps three inches thick. Below this, 
ten feet of red shales, succeeded by twelve and a half feet of limestones, 
interstratified with shale. | 
On the land of Mr. Caldwell, about a mile below his house, we find 
fifty feet of sandy shales, forming cliffs along the bank of Duck Creek. 
These shales rise to the north, and underneath them appears a stratum 
of limestone a foot or more thick, highly fossiliferous, which for some 
miles rises faster than the stream. At a point once called ‘“Soak’em” 
it is more than fifty feet above the creek. Seven feet underneath the 
limestone is a thin seam of coal. A geological section at this point is as. 
follows : 
Ft. In 
1. Sandy shales (not measured). 
2. Fossiliferous limestone, Cambridge limestone .............sceeececceesecece 1 0: 
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7 Need OLOPE Nyasa SAN A EP Meee awe Co Unc gelce eee cy ei aleuisaiee tine Us tueuceaeme Neale Gs I @ 
5. Clay shales—yellow above, red below......... scccscses cocees senses cvcees cosces 22 0 
Gen lave lmao callanpliMEStOMG) nua ssccesccesceceeucesecs sesevetsacssiecsseneyee se 8 0 
le) SOINEY Cee adncd as basdiade HoSeoe aor CEC BEER Eon ter i IeE ERE Cray 2 ey in Nos i a 15 0 
Bed of Duck Creek. (See Map. XII., No. 30.) 
This fossiliferous limestone is, I have no doubt, the Cambridge lime: 
stone, and is nowhere to be seen in the valley of Duck Creek south of: 
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