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HOLMES COUNTY. BAG 
The following is a section from a continuous exposure in avYavine on 
Mr. Ellison’s land, in the south part of Knox, and tothe north-west of 
ithe last: 
"Vertical Scale, 1 inch to 72 feet. 
ACES ee. «Gray limestone. 
37 
Sandstene. 
48 Shale, with iron ore. 
1 =| 4 Coal 
2 1 -< Calcareousiron ore. 
ae ” Coal. 
Gray and blue shale. 
5 Biue limestone. 
Coal, shale and coai. 
97 Shaly sandstone, and blue shaie. 
10 : § Iron ore. 
10 Ae ; Fire clay. 
hae —— = Gray shale, with nodular iron ore. 
36 ae 
9 Shaly sandstone. 
A Bluish-gray shale. 
18 Shaly sandstone. 
a8 panst ope Eber 6 inches white, with stigmariz. 
Waverly. 
8a 
Tn this section the eighteen feet of sandstone represents the Conglom~ 
erate, and the top, white layer, filled with stigmariz, is the horizon and 
““bottom rock ” of Coal No. 1, which is here wanting. At Motes’s bank, as 
illustrated in the first section, the fireclay of this coal rests directly 
upon the Waverly. 
- On Thomas Owens’s land, in Knox foment the out-crops of five 
coals are exposed below the gray limestone, and between the lower coal 
and the Waverly are twenty-seven feet of blue shale, containing thin 
bands of shaly sandstone, but no trace of any rock resembling the Con- 
glomerate. 
Reterring again to the section at Lozier’s quarry, if Prof Lesley’s sug- 
gestion in regard to the Mahoning Valley, that we should look for the 
continuance above Coal No. 1 of the massive beds of Conglomerate exposed 
