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The coal is slaty, but makes a hot fire, and is an excellent fuel if nothing 
better can be obtained. It contains a considerable proportion of pyrites, 
generally distributed. | 
This bed is badly cut up by horsebacks of a somewhat peculiar type. 
In one of Mr. Burson’s openings the coal in the main entry suddenly 
- changed into a curious mixture of very base iron ore and prismatic coal. 
This displaced the coal for twenty yards, and made it necessary to enter 
the bed in another direction. A thin streak of iron ore is found a few 
_ feet below the coal. It is of fair quality, but too small in quantity to be 
of any value. 
On the farm of Mr. J. H. Carlisle, in section 15, is a chalybeate spring 
issuing thirty-five feet below the coal, and pouring out a strong stream 
two and one-half inches in diameter. Directly below it is a bed of iron 
ore perhaps fifteen inches thick, though this could not be accurately de- 
termined. The spring is unfailing, and yields so large a quantity of 
water that when the annual camp-meeting is held on this property, sev- 
eral thousand persons being present, all the people and horses are sup- 
plied from this spring without lessening the amount of water in the 
reservoir. 
Center Township.—On the National Road; about two miles from Wash- 
ington, Mr. Alex. Eagleston works No. 7b It is here two feet six inches 
thick, and appears to be topped directly by a heavy sandstone, the Crin- 
oidal limestone being nowhere exposed. The coal is handsome and said 
to be very good. The result of analysis is as follows: 
PS) OXI) CARDEN a Sma ers 2 ors i Tee Rea Pets Rie Se fA nee ORE eee eae Grae Se 1.300 
IMGYSGUTC ee rere erty reg oPl sey sole oa nl Nahai ede cela aa Stal craGa\clancuiauis oicard dis 2.30 
Wolatnilexcombustiblepmattersserisaeeeta setae ieee eeiaieieeel is tetera veie ete 36.30 
DUNE (IMC ATED OMe ayer shoei ett ects olay ch jat aca: yottainretniaiei sisters Cieveteloistolete (oie ele te Sw asa © 53.00 
PAIS LIa Steet teeia etcetera ec clcts. seas Societe as weds S's ce haa Shes oeeec 8.40 
ADO SEES) Us Sh A SE eG A ee SH GIL Ae tt A Rar A BEC A 100.00 
SAUL DUAREDP | os eels BG SE oe a RO eA ec a ene a 4.44 
SOUND TREN NTT HAS SOO CONS) oceans BanS Bao Bong eoebes Goce CopbIEaEO ObSoe 1.92 
SUIEDINTAP TOTTI CHE HD COLO dads adedesoo na cconoa sd onudgou HS Cos beor mane: jones 
INSECT TOSW OOM WN, CUNO WG sso6 dognon 56 ode bomb oGe douH dadp Gobu6C 3.72 
OINGREVOUGR WH, COL SOb bo coos Doe eSO OOo COC ACR Os SOOO REDO a eee a aane Compact. 
Wolormo tas Wey ciccte seis Saeko closer versal e sah a cia sere SG Se. Se Sa Gray. 
Two miles farther west this coal is only one foot thick, and about sixty 
feet below it is a two-inch coal, which is probably No. 7a. One hundred 
and forty feet below No. 7b, Coal No. 7 is seen at Mr. Hd. Nyce’s, on the 
