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measured. It is probably the equivalent of the Woodsfield seam. The 
upper seam presents the following subdivisions: 
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The quality of the coal of the lower bench is good. This seam is re- 
ported to be worked at another point, and found to be four feet thick. 
This measurement probably includes the clay parting. A seam of hard 
blue limestone, two feet thick, is seen about one hundred and forty feet 
below the upper coal. A very long section was taken at Baresville, ex- 
tending to the top of a very high hill, about two miles from the village, 
which disclosed four seams of coal. The lowest one, probably the Woods- 
field seam, is about forty-five feet above low water in. the Ohio River. 
This is two feet thick. The next is one hundred and ninety-three feet 
higher, with nine inches of coal in the upper bench, separated from the 
lower bench of two feet by four inches of clay parting. About one hun- 
dred end forty-seven feet higher is the blossom of another seam of coal. 
Nearly three hundred feet higher, and on the summit of the hill, is an- 
other blossom of coal. This hill, by the barometer, is six hundred and 
seventy-nine feet high from the low-water level of the Ohio River. 
About one hundred and thirty-five feet below the top of the hill are six 
feet of limestone, the lower two of which are cement limestone. Wight- 
een feet lower are two,feet of sandy limestone. This section is seen on 
Map XIII., No. 11. It is for the most part a weary alternation of sand- 
stones and shales. 
