JEFFERSON COUNTY. 716% 
under the stream. Along this road the following section was observed, 
which is very imperfect above, but fully exposed below: 
FT. 
1. Shales and sandstones, badly exposed. ..-........ Pear Se see a ete lay es 110 
2. Coal, blossom. 
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4, JV.imestone and calcareous shale..........-... Shae ds STARS CORR EME ete 60 
5. Coal No. 8c—shale, 2 feet; coal, 2 feet.......--.- BOBDIGEOO SO SOO BOO Cone 2° 4) 
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Se COM UB NON SC eee e ers /orycteiaileisieraretsieiisialeiath.s @ eisilwiwinclo’scisisiewic'eic bois at us oie lavenae 1 
9. Limestone and calcareous shale........-.--0- sch clas Crave ataus Cha ratatersley erat ci Me 30 
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11. Coal No. 8. 
In the little stream running by the plank road, Coal No. 8c has been 
taken out. The available thickness is about fourteen inches, and the coal 
is of moderately good quality, though much injured by numerous thin, 
slaty partings. The faces are covered by thin films of carbonate of lime. 
Going north-west from Mt. Pleasant, on the Cadiz pike, we find the fol- 
lowing section, which presents some interesting variations from the last: 
1. Arenaceous shale 
2. Coat No. 12, blossom. 
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4. Coal No. 11, blossom 
5 
Concealed in part, but most sandstone, with occasional layers of flaggy 
limestone 
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Gi bimestoneranducalcarecous shales jess eis 20 ele sme «1-1-4 leis = = elnino 40 
Go ABN CROWS BOVE 55600 6006 6606 056000 6660 665505 6556 6055 655400 s506K650 3 
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9. Thinly laminated arenaceous shale......-...--- 20. .- eens eee one wane nee 18 
10. Limestone, gray, ferruginous—weathers yellow ........-.-...---.-.-.- 15 
I COGLPNON SA MDIOSSOM Wass Sees ae etas bw aelciowalcise cast eee baleen seloe eas os 8 
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In these sections, Coal No. 8b, of the Belmont county section, which 
should overlie No. 7 of the first and No. 9 of the second, is absent, as is 
also Coal No. 9, which should rest on No. 4 and No. 6 of the two sections. 
It is well worthy of note that the limestone under Coal No.9 has lost 
twenty feet of its thickness within three miles, while the interval between 
8 and 8c has lessened about thirteen feet. 
On Long Run, where the base of the last section is reached, Coal No. 8 
has been mined quite extensively, but many of the openings have been 
deserted, or are now lying idle. In the banks of Messrs. Grubbs, Kith- 
