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within about a mile of its mouth; and the same is true of Mohawk creek, 
the next branch above. It stretches up the valley of the Killbuck into 
Holmes county ; and near the mill in the great bend of this stream, in 
Clark township, it forms cliffs of shales and sandstones, forty to fifty feet 
high, in which the peculiar fossils of the group are found in great pro- 
fusion. It forms here, altogether, probably 100 feet of the lower portion 
of the hills. Doughty’s Fork, a branch of the Killbuck, also runs in the 
Waverly shales, as they were found with their fossils in the bottom, two 
miles south-west from Bloomfield. Over the line, in Holmes county, 
near the north-east corner of Tiverton township, the Waverly is exposed 
in the valley of Wolf Run. 
This group of the Carboniferous formation contains little of economical 
importance. It affords no coal nor iron-ore. Some of its beds of sand- 
stone may prove of value, especially for flagging-stones. The Coal Meas- 
ures are very deficient in these; and the want of such stones is already 
felt at Coshocton and the other principal towns situated in this forma- 
tion. The brown and clive-colored shales produce, by their decomposi-_ 
tion, soils of great fertility, as is seen everywhere through the bottoms 
where they occur. Probably no more productive corn-fields, for their ex- 
tent, are to be found in the State, than those in the Waverly soils of the 
Western townships of Coshocton county. 
Small quantities of galena are not unfrequently met with in the 
Waverly, and they have led to the conviction that this metal might be 
found in abundance in this and the adjoining counties. There are, how- 
ever, no facts yet known that justify this belief. The lead of the Wa- 
verly forms no connected veins or beds, but is found replacing fossil 
shells, or, in isolated crystals, scattered in small number through the 
rock. Hence, while the reports of the existence of lead in Coshocton 
county, are “founded on fact,” there is not the slightest probability that 
it will be ever discovered in sufficient quantity to pay for working. 
That portion of the Coal Measures found in Coshocton county, com- 
prises, altogether, the seven or eight coal beds in the lower half of the 
series; but only a small number of these occur of workable dimensions 
in the same vicinity, and it is not often that more than one bed has 
been opened and mined in the same hill or neighborhood. The relative 
position of these coal beds, and of the accompanying strata, may be 
best understood by reference to the section, which exhibits the general 
manner of their arrangement in this county. [Every farm in the county, 
that lies above the Waverly strata, contains one or more of these coal 
beds beneath its surface ; and those localities that contain the uppermost 
beds, also contain all the lower ones. But while each coal bed can almost 
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