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intercalated bed, if one may judge from its sudden origin and expansion. 
It is absent over the greater part of Muskingum and Guernsey counties 
in localities where both Nos. 6 and)4 can be recognized without doubt. 
Coal No. 4 is of no importance, and was observed at no other locality. 
Here it consists of cannel, three inches, bituminous coal, four inches. 
Coal No. 3a, though here only twenty-two inches thick, becomes thirty 
inches at another point about a mile east from Mr. Menefee’s, where it is 
worked. It is highly esteemed by some, as it makes a cheerful fire. A 
layer of bituminous coal, three inches thick, is found at the bottom. 
The limestones are all bluish. The gray limestone is apt to be shaly, 
is less tough, and more granular than those below. It has been used 
successfully as a flux. The middle limestone is cherty, with the flint 
irregularly distributed through it. Near Mr. Matthews’s coal works the 
limestone is absent, being replaced by the flint. The ore, so well marked 
in Madison, Jackson, Licking, and Muskingum, is absent here, or rather 
is traceable only by means of a few scattered nodules accompanying the 
chert. The ore resting upon the gray limestone is of no value, being im- 
bedded in sandstone. The sandstones of the section along the river, be- 
tween Nos. 4 and 6, are compact, and would doubtless be excellent for 
building purposes. | 
Coal No. 7 was seen only at one point. It is seventy-five feet above 
No. 6, and is not more than nine inches thick. South of the Central 
Ohio Railroad it is mined extensively, and is four to five feet thick. 
Adams Township.—The greater portion of Adams lies at such an eleva- 
tion as to place it far above any available coal. The higher coals, which 
are worked at Norwich, Union township, thin out northward and become 
worthless. On Symmes Creek and Wills Creek Coal No. 6 is exposed. A 
section of the township is as follows: | 
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Coal No. 6 is worked by Messrs. Keyes & Ridgeway, on the north fork of 
Symmes Creek, in section 16. No opportunity was afforded for examin- 
ing these banks, as they were full of water. The coal is said to be three 
