588 GEOLOGY OF OHIO, 
Lafayette—The greater part of this township is alluvial bottom land. 
Its interests are exclusively agricultural, and we encountered no coal. 
openings in the township. The higher parts of it, however, must con- 
tain what appears to be the only important bed of this region, viz., No. 6. 
The ancient valley, or river bed, extending through it from north-west to 
south-east, has already been noticed. 
Oxford.—A. considerable part of this township, also, is bottom land, in 
the broad valley of the Tuscarawas. Coal beds, however, are worked in 
the north-west corner of the township, which were not visited. They are 
probably on the same bed (No. 6) as the workings in Adams, not far to 
the north, and those on the same side of the river, and as near, to it at New- 
comerstown, over the line in Tuscarawas county. The valley of Wills 
Creek, on the south edge of the township, is on the level of the blue 
limestone, and a small seam of cannel coal is seen directly under it in 
this vicinity; and under the gray limestone, twenty-five feet higher up: 
in the same run, is a coal bed not well exposed, the upper part of which 
is cannel. Coal No. 6 must be in the hills in the south-east part of the 
township, but no openings of it were seen. : 
From Coshocton to the east line of the county, the dip has not contin- 
ued in an easterly direction, but appears to be reversed. At Coshocton, 
Coal No. 6, at the Home Company’s mine, is about 148 feet above the 
railroad, which is there 138 feet above Lake Erie; and at New Comers- 
town, the same bed is 130 feet above the railroad, which is there 163 feet 
above the Lake, making the bed seven feet higher at Newcomerstown. 
The direction is about due east. The effect of this flattening of the dip, 
is to keep the same series of strata near the surface, and give a monot- 
onous character to the geology. There appears to be no southern dip, 
either, in the south-east part of the county, judging from the barometri- 
cal elevations of the Tuscarawas and Wills Creek valleys. 
Pike.-—This township is altogether near the bottom of the Coal Meas- 
ures. The gray limestone is seen very frequently in the high grounds, 
accompanied by its coal bed, No. 4; and as we see no evidence of the coal 
being worked, it is probably of little importance. ‘ At West Carlisle, the 
sandstone just under the gray limestone, contains numerous specimens 
of what are probably fucoidal stems, in a variety of unusual forms, some 
bearing a curious resemblance to the fossil saurian foot-prints. On the 
west side of the village, is a large outcrop of slaty cannel coal, probably 
belonging to the gray limestone, but of ne value. No particular change 
is observed in the strata from this point to the south-west part of the 
township, where the land soon descends down to the Waverly. 
No considerable deposit of iron-ore was found in place in Pike town- 
ship, but a number of nodules of ore, of fine quality, were noticed in the 
