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Besides the seam supposed to be the upper Barnesville, or Cumberland 
seam, mined by Mr. Jones, near Clarington, and by Mr. Mehl, on Negro 
Run, there are in Salem two well-defined seams higher in the hills—one 
about one hundred feet above Mehi’s seam, and the other about seventy 
feet higher. Both of these have been opened, but are little worked. 
In passing up Negro Run we find on the land of Abraham Long, sec- 
tion 2, both of these seams. The geological section is’as follows: 
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AMS LAE MAT LIM Oaeemegae eee Uweenibuelsel Cosa cceid sdusesloallsaesy woscsddedieneaecieseseeeeee ) 2 
EMO Onl leer atiannae nave cua er cit as oe Nis sig aM Oak ag utealt albsionmmiaceiied tudes sae ise als parses 0 8 
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8. Blue, sandy, bituminous limestone.......... Seed Cs Hm OLN ANU ea eafeiual etocen i Onising 
eA BARDEN SUEY cine SCAM AS ec SCS COSINE NCEP SMe Fe PTE ees MEI At DIA AES an PAL LEER 4M) 
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(Map XIII., No. 19.) 
SWITZERLAND TOWNSHIP. 
This is the north-eastern township of the county. The land is*gener- 
ally high, and, from the ridge running east and west through the center 
of the township, streams flow to the north into Captina Creek, to the 
east into the Ohio, and to the south into Sunfish. The soil is largely 
formed of disintegrated shales and sandstones, and is naturally less rich 
than the more limestone soils, but the German and Swiss farmers have 
done wonders in its cultivation, and there is no better farming in the 
State. Almost every farm has its small vineyard, and other fruits are 
successfully cultivated. There is an air of neatness and thrift quite in 
contrast with the slovenly character of much of our native American 
farming in Southern Ohio. 
On the land of Jacob Davis, in section 3 of range 4, is seen in the bed 
of a stream a seam of coal, reported to be four feet thick, which is the 
same seam as the upper one on the land of Abraham Long, in section 2, 
Salem township. The coal is somewhat slaty. It is given in Map: 
XIII., No. 22. Above this seam of coal no other coal was seen in climb- 
ing three hundred and sixty-eight feet to the top of a high knob on the 
farm of Charles Dota, about two miles to the north or north-east of Mr. 
Davis’s, in section 8. On the summit of the knob are several feet of 
crumbling limestone. Below the limestone are red and yellow shales, 
below which is a heavy sandrock, nearly fifty feet thick. (See Map XIIL., 
