664. GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
the name of the Upper Lexington Coal, which gradually thickens to the 
southward, on the south side of the divide reaching in places the mag- 
nificent height of thirteen feet. a 
The section here given exhibits all the coals and associated rock strata 
of this neighborhood. 
Twenty-five feet below the cherty limestone—the lowest stratum indi- 
cated in the section— a bed of coal two feet in thickness is disclosed in 
the ravines northwest of New Lexington, but it is not at the bottom of 
the Coal Measure rocks. The coal at the outcrop is of very fair quality, 
breaks up into small cubes, and has the appearance of Coal No. 1. 
