550 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
Following the line of the railroad east of Barnesville, we find in a 
railroad cut on the land of Wm. Stanton, section i0, a thin seam of coal 
only two inches thick, which was believed to be the same as the highest 
coal found at Barnesville, about forty feet above the tunnel seam. The 
section in this cut is as follows: 
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About a mile further east, in a railroad cut on the farm of the late 
Hzekiel Bundy, Esq., a seam of coal one foot thick is seen, which was 
believed to be the same as the Barnesville tunnel seam. The section in 
the cut is as follows: 
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On the same farm an old excavation for coal was visited. Coal was 
once obtained here by the late Mr. Bundy for family use. This seam is 
twenty-seven feet below the seam in the railroad cut. 
SOMERTON TOWNSHIP. 
Most of this township lies upon the high ground which constitutes the 
water-shed between the Ohio River on the east and Wills Creek waters 
on the west. The soil is of fair quality, but the heaviest beds of lime- 
stone lie in the valley of Captina Creek, too low, at least, to have much 
fertilizing influence upon the soil of the hill-sides. At Temperanceville, 
in the extreme western part of the township, Beaver Creek has eroded 
its valley below the lower Barnesville, or Wheeling, seam of coal, and 
the seam is mined in that neighborhood. The following is a geological 
section in the vicinity of the village of Somerton: 
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