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posed to be the equivalent of the coal in the Sunfish valley, near Woods- 
field. In the interval of one hundred and ninety-three feet between Nos. 
5 and 7 in the section, which did not reveal to us its strata, every thing 
being buried with soil, there should be found other seams of coal, which 
at other points have been found of some value. 
MALAGA TOWNSHIP. 
This township lies west of Seneca, and borders Somerton, of Belmont 
county, on the north. It is, for the most part, on the high, broad ridge, 
which, beginning in Summit township on the south, extends north 
through Somerton, Warren, etc., townships, in Belmont county, and con- 
stitutes the divide between the direct tributaries of the Ohio on the east 
and the various tributaries of Wills Creek on the west. Much of the 
high land is smooth, and well adapted to fruit culture. Traces of thin 
seams of coal were found in going from Miltonsburg to Calais, which are 
mentioned in the report for Seneca township. Traces of similar seams 
were seen on the road from Miltonsburg to the deep valley of Sunfish 
Creek, in Center township, which at Ford’s Mill is about three hundred 
feet below Miltonsburg. They were nowhere opened, and probably are 
too thin to be worked, except in a small way for neighborhood use, by the 
rude method of stripping. They are all high in the geological series, 
and nowhere in the Second Geological District are they found to be of 
much practical value. Some limestone strata were seen, which aid much 
in fertilizing the soil. 
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP. 
This township is well named, for it is upon a very high ridge, from 
which the water flows into Wills Creek on the north-west and west, into 
Sunfish Creek on the east, and into various tributaries of Little Mus- 
kingum on the south. A hill on the land of George Frock, a half mile 
south-west of the village of Lewisville, is one of the highest points in 
the county. It is one hundred and thirty feet above the upper seam of 
coal, and about three hundred and forty to three hundred and sixty 
above the lower coal found on the South Fork of Wills Creek. A distant 
knob, in the direction south, 25° east, is a little higher. The Lewisville 
hill is on the Marietta road, and, as usual in south-eastern Ohio, the 
road runs over the highest point! The following section was taken in 
passing from the Lewisville hill down to the coal seam on the South Fork 
of Wills Creek : 
1. Top of knob. 
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Blossom of coal. 
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