HOCKING VALLEY. } 669 
The middle bench in this neighborhood should be over five feet in 
thickness. -The rapid waters, which brought in the coarse material of 
the sandstone, cut away all the shales which normally cover the coal, 
the whole of the upper bench, and between two and three Hae of the 
middle bench of the coal. 
On the south side of the West Fork, Section 19, Mon toe township, is 
the following exposure of the coal: 
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On the north-east quarter of the same section, is an exposure, 
follows: 
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With part of the upper bench removed. 
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On the Akron Iron Company’s property, a shaft has been sunk through 
the coal, where the top of the deposit is a little below the bottom of the 
valley, disclosing this section : 
FT. IN 
Sandy shale. 
Blue clay shale. 
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On the south side of the valley, and some twenty rods from this shaft, 
the fine column of coal was taken out which was exhibited (by the Hurd 
Coal and Iron Company) in the Ohio collection of minerals at the Cen- 
tennial Exposition in Philadelphia. 
In the north-east quarter of Seetion 7, Monroe township, the coal is 
wenty-eight feet below the surface, and twelve feet thick. 
