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worthless, burning much like rotten wood. It is likely, however, that 
no fair test was made, and that nothing was used excepting badly 
weathered crop-coal. The thickness of the bed is about three feet. The 
openings in Coal No. 8 are very numerous. At Mr. John Greenleaf’s 
bank, section 29, the thickness averages four feet six inches, though it 
sometimes reaches five feet. The coal is very prettily irised, somewhat 
brittle, and quite bituminous. It contains thin films of carbonate of lime. 
In the upper six inches are several thin streaks of pyrites, and at a dis- 
tance of ten inches from the top is the pyrites band, three-eighths of an 
inch thick. Below this, pyrites is in small quantity, and the coal ap- 
pears to be exceedingly pure. The sandstone roof is somewhat irregular, 
but interferes little with the coal. The adjoining banks, belonging t 
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Frizzel, show no material differences, except that 
the sandstone occasionally cuts out the coal somewhat, but never becomes 
troublesome as a horseback. In the banks of Mr. A. Hunter, section 35, 
and Messrs. McCormick and 8. Curtis, section 30, the sandstone cuts out 
the coal, forming a sandstone horseback, varying from sixteen to thirty 
feet in width, which is usually softer than the overlying rock. 
Between Sewellsville and New Egypt the erosion is enormous, as ap- 
pears from the fact that although the distance is only five miles, the 
whole section from Coal No. 12 to forty feet below Coal No. 8, about three 
hundred feet, can be measured four times without leaving the road. 
Analyses of Coal No. 8 were made with specimens from Mr. J. McCart- 
ney’s bank (No. 1), near Hendrysburg, and Mr. J. Greenleaf’s bank (No. 
2), near Sewellsville. 
IO Ap No. 2. 
DOCG SANT is Go Sod coher SHOES ea Se eee Oo aene neo eer 1.343 1.300 
MIOKSUUERG) S586 seer ease ae aa aaa Patera ielej chore ets) crores 1.30 1.10 
AEN ob 6 SGSG00S SOS DAO AE SO TE A SE ene 6.20 5.00 
Wolanlevcombustiplennattersseeemaen see ee reese e eee 32.70 37.90 
Mie CECAT DONE esmre tte tes tee cece | SNS SOL NTIS 59.80 56.00 
WOH ocosse cooosee azogse desQoenendas sao000 beSece 100.00 100.00 
Sil Ure Ne roam weet end Sh ea Leds ee be 3.02 3.84 
Sulla enter MNCO Ke reaeey sya ose sne SSE See ee ee see 1.64 1.78 
Sul ol nUNP orBTATINGS OE THA) COG) Sa5c5 conde uooeen sore boecoue 2.49 2,91 
Hixedesassper pound imecubicl feet s2seessse 0-6 sess ses. 3.27 3.39 
ANS). (3 oaoneg CACC EOoE Saar ane SooRoOS oD pORO Sean Sana KOOKS Dull white. Gray. 
CORO Ss so Secs eee ASSIA EH ANAL et CAEN Compact. Compact. 
This coal crosses the Guernsey county line about one mile west from 
Sewellsville. The north-western outcrop passes from this point in section 
30 through sections 29, 30, and 24, into Flushing township. 
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