750 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
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13. Massive sandstone to Island Creek. 
In the above section the coals are apparently the same with those- 
opened at Wells's mine, the distance between them being here seventy-two 
feet, and fifty-four feet there. The lower coal in the above section has. 
not been worked toany extent. It is reported poor. The “Finley Coal,” 
or No. 7, at Moreland’s, has the following composition: 
1. Black shale. 
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6. Fire-clay. 
Nearly a mile further up Island Creek, this coal has been opened on the- 
farmo: Mr. H. F. Fleming, three anda half to four feet thick, and of good 
quality, though, as shown by analyses, inferior to the Steubenville coal. 
In the highlands back of the river the Pittsburgh seam is found in 
many localities from Knoxville south. It is quite largely worked for 
home use, but it lies at a distance from the railroad, and the coal it fur- 
nishes is of fair but not superior quality. It cannot, therefore, be profit-- 
ably shipped. 
Knoxville is built upon a higher hill than any in the neighborhood. 
Several seams of buff limestone occur on the hill, and the Pittsburgh 
coal lies one hundred and eighty-five feet from the top. It is here four 
feet thick, and is mined on the farm of Mr. T. 8. Mills. 
Coal No. 8 also occurs in some of the high hills between Knoxville: 
and McCoy’s Station, and towards the south and west it is found on all. 
the land which is high enough to catch it. It is mined in many places. 
ne:r Pekin and Richmond. 7 . 
The following section was taken from Knoxville south to Island Creek. 
The heights were measured by barometer in bad weather, and are there-- 
fre not to be relied upon. For example: the distance between Coal 
No. 8 and the crinoidal limestone, which is elsewhere in this region 
about two hundred feet, as shown by the barometer, is, according to the: 
series of observations, only one hundred and sixty-two feet : | 
