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be beneath the railroad. A massive sandstone occurs below grade at this 
point, and this may cut out the lower coals; the exposures are too imper- 
fect to decide this question. 
PORT HOMER. 
At Port Homer the following section was obtained on the farm of Mr. 
Desellems: 
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3. Olive and red shales, withsome sandstone-..... 158 feet. 
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aS A Ole ates eee eyeing ste oy eee ejaoiy ete reieran ayes, sis eis 40 feet. 
|. COG, ION TS on dodo5 F44845 Fb6506 Cou Seno DOOOsS 18 inches to 3 feet 8 inches. 
7. Sandstone, clay, and shale................-. 40 feet. 
8. Non-plastic fire-clay, with plastic clay....... 14 to 3 feet. 
9: -Shale and sandstone.*..-.:.---.-2.. 2-6... 47 feet. 
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13. Gray shale, with nodular iron............... 15 feet. 
14, Coal No. 3—‘“clay seam’’—3 inches of caanel 
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Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad 45 feet above river. 
Port Homer is the first point below the mouth of Yellow Creek where 
the “Clay coal” (“Creek Vein,” or Coa! No. 3) has been identified. It is 
here worked for household purposes, but is a very inferior coal. A trace 
of No. 4 is found twenty to thirty feet above it, but it is not well seen 
here, and is probably thin. A twenty inch seam ninety feet above Coal 
No. 3 is probably Coal No. 5, although the exposures are insufficient to 
determine this. The seam ninety feet above that last mentioned, is ap- 
parently Coal No. 7, the place of No. 6 being half way between the visible 
coals. No traces of it were discovered, and it may be wanting. The in- 
terval is too incompletely shown to decide the question. 
M’COY’S STATION. 
From Port Homer the strata are nearly horizontal to McCoy’s. They 
slightly rise towards the south, indeed, as the fire-clay under No. 3, on 
the grade at Port Homer, is at McCoy’s five or six feet above the railroad. 
As shown in the section made at Port Homer, a hard non-plastic fire- 
clay, similar to the Mineral Point and Mt. Savage clays, occurs about one 
hundred and fifty feet above the railroad. It is associated with plastic 
clay and recurs in many of the sections taken in this vicinity. Its thick- 
ness is variable, reported from eighteen inches to ten feet, but no good 
