216 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
sandstone is from north north-east to south south-west, and evidently 
marks the eastern boundary of a strong current from the north which 
cut away the limestone, and in portions of Belmont county even tore out 
the coal. In Nottingham township the force was greater than in Moore- 
field, for in the former township the limestone has been entirely cut out, 
whereas in the latter a small portion is left. 
Coal No. 9 is a very persistent bed, and shows little variation in thick- 
ness or quality. It is only two feet six inches thick, with a two or three- 
inch parting in the middle. Lying only fifteen to thirty feet above Coal 
No. 7 and sixty to seventy below Coal No. 10, one or the other of these 
coals is available wherever it is exposed, and it is nowhere worked. Mr. 
Alex. Henderson, three miles west from Cadiz, in sinking a well passed 
through this bed and burned some of the coal. He found it remarkably 
pure, giving off no sulphurous odor when the hot coals were wet, but 
much softer than the coal below. 
Coal No. 10 may be frequently seen at road-side exposures in Cadiz, 
Short Creek, and Athens, and occasionally in Rumley, Jefferson, and 
Archer. The coal is somewhat inferior to that from Coal No. 8, and the bed 
is thinner, so that it is not worked as extensively as its thickness would 
warrant. It passes under the court-house at Cadiz, and is exposed in the 
road-side, near Mr. D. Hines’s house, east from Cadiz. Here, as at the 
neighboring exposure at Mr. Hedges’s house, the cropping is too indefi- 
nite to admit of measurement. 
Near the old plank-road, in Short Creek township, near Mr. Dicker- 
son’s house, and two and one-half miles south-east from Cadiz, the coal is 
- exposed at the road-side, and gives the following section: 
FT. IN 
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a O62 9 EE en ee eh Ae ee Ee. GSES OTS Se ei) Geet NO 
SBE SAL Oisecie scent Tere ater Scots attorney es faves ates Spee Te ee eae ee nee tered eet 3 0 
Halas O10] Wry ee Rey ee ee eR I aS Oe te te ood CaCO 4 6 
VERS 0t: 1 (sak AAG ADR Sc Marne ane eka aN is oS oe omen Rane 3 0 
Sn OX OY] GR eT CC Ua ee eae! Cee ee en ee rene OS Or ero Sr Sens 0 4 
7. Sandstone (not measured). 
At another locality in this township, about two miles west from Har- 
risville, on the road to New Athens, the smailer seams are wanting, and 
only the main coal is found, four feet seven inches thick, and without 
any partings. . 
In Athens township this coal is worked to some extent to supply New 
Athens, which lies too high to reach Coal No. 8, being more than one 
hundred feet above Coal No. 10. The openings were all full of water at 
the time of examination, and nothing could be learned from them ; but 
