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there. The coal is very pure, and is said to cake quite readily upon the 
fire. It is so easily mined that, notwithstanding its thinness, a good 
miner can easily dig and put out seventy-five bushels per diem. The 
roof is good, and the rooms at this bank are twenty feet wide, without 
props. Other openings are quite numerous. At Mr. James Gott’s bank 
it is nearly three feet thick, and shows no parting. It breaks out in 
blocks, leaving little slack, and burns to a fine white ash. Mr. Samuel 
Gutchall has twenty-six to thirty inches of good, clean coal, but rather 
harder than that from most of the other banks. At Mr. John Hoster- 
mann’s it varies from twenty-four to thirty inches, but is poor and slaty, 
and no longer worked. Mr. Crim’s coal is slaty, but that from Mr. Boyer’s 
bank, adjoining, is of very fair quality. The character of this coal is 
very varied here. At one bank it is clean, at another so slaty as to be 
worthless; at one it is open-burning, at another a caking coal. Like 
all the coals of the Barren Group, it can not be depended upon. A sample 
from Harlem yields the following upon analysis: 
SOSCHIIIG FOREN ANINY (Sa OG ose seo SUcS GIO ene HH DIB GES Ose ATS SeSe ee rne eee ae 1.267 
INLOIS TUTE Vee rer reer mytetNebats oe lavsnsl tere iotnnte me eteth aye mlene ata matey AEA 2.90 
ANEIS, nei oo 63 by SOE BEES BOS BInG DAE EIS SCT CII tats ars Pret es eami Tes eae es 3.00 
Wolatiiercomipus till epmattetuetsse ieee eae ieee incre oes ice eet 29.90 
2 NERO GL CRNA OMS SIA CA BE SAGAS GA See Des eRe nS ere em er ee 64.20 
ANCHE SAAS O RS cata oC oe ET aE aca oe enn ee ae ee 100.00 
S lla ieampere esr sees eye ear beeeih yon eh) end Dyes ell ate Ie Dae eee Bel 0.96 
SUM NTE eS LEMME COC pare etna siete Ayer hi shayatvaahral yo: oia) sjciata Sioyeinte Siew ise cin’ 0.57 
SOU OINUNP soe Cit GOK cosad sloagu dc suc ConeSsas Conese Boones GaEceoes 0.84 
NIDROOL AS OSI FOOWUNCL, IT) CUM OKG SBS od Shoo Socgus coo babu doe Hoenn ceudeE 3.48 
AMS 6.3 SHEL OSES GAS SISSIES SOO Te a Re oa ce tat Gray 
(OOH hek es ta Gere RTD 0 AL RS a SS a Compact. 
In London and southern Perry this coal was not observed. It is un- 
doubtedly present, as an attempt was made some years ago to work it at 
Rumley, in Harrison county, just by the county line. Of course no esti- 
mate can be rade respecting its thickness or value. In Perry township 
it was observed about a mile from Perrysville, on the property of Mr. 
Othniel Baker. It is there one foot thick, of poor quality, resting almost 
directly on a bluish nodular limestone, and twenty-three feet below the 
upper layer of the Crinoidal limestone. From Mr. Baker’s it was traced 
to Palermo, in Union township, where it is ten inches thick and twenty- 
five feet below the limestone. Northward in this township it is seen 
approaching the limestone and becoming thinner. Near Carrollton it is 
only four inches thick, and northward from that village it was not ob- 
