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6. Black material, exceedingly hard, but without grit......-.--..-------- 4 
7. White sandstone, yielding salt water in large quantity.....---.-------- 33 
8. Shales, dark brown or bluish, with nodular pyrites ......-.-.---.------ 62 
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The gravel, of course, is detritus brought down by the stream. The 
interval represented by it is partly filled by exposures up the stream, as 
follows: 
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4: Hinesoraimed, Sandstone je 222.545. 52 secs Nae eee eee ae eer ae 15 
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Leaving twenty feet, not seen, necessary to make the section in the oil 
well complete. There is no reason to doubt that Nos. 2,3, 4, and 5 of this 
section, as well as No. 2 of the oil well section, belong to the Waverly 
series, which, therefore, includes all down to No. 8, the Huron shales. 
The Carboniferous conglomerate is here quite coarse, and contains 
many pebbles two-thirds of an inch in diameter. The sandstone, No. 4 
of the second section, is fine-grained, without pebbles, and works nicely 
under the chisel. No. 5 is scarcely inferior to it. 
At the depth of 671 feet salt water was found in large quantity, and is 
said by Mr. Doane to average nine or ten per cent. of salt. Under such 
circumstances there can be no doubt that were there suitable means of 
transportation the manufacture could be carried on here to profit. 
Lacking Township.—Coal No. 2 has been worked by Mr. L. Stump near 
Nashport, and is said to be somewhat more than two feet thick, and to 
yield a coal of fair quality. Coal No. 1 undoubtedly exists west from Nash- 
port, but is probably very thin, as no openings, or even exposures, were 
observed. The outcrop of Coal No. 4 was seen at several localities, but 
it is very thin. Near the Muskingum line the flint ore bed has been 
worked by stripping. Coal is not mined to any extent here, as it can be 
brought more cheaply by canal from Coshocton county. 
In the western portion of the township the Conglomerate and the 
Waverly series are exposed. 
Cass Township.—About one mile west from Dresden a number of deserted 
openings upon Coal No. 6 mark its western outcrop. On the road from 
these banks to Dresden the following section was obtained: 
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