COSHOCTON COUNTY. 593 
seam of slaty cannel coal, four inches thick, adheres closely to the under- 
side of these blocks. The underlying strata down to the creek are shales, 
with nodules of kidney ore. A gray limestone is twenty-five feet above 
the blue, and under it is a coal outcrop. A mile south from the bridge, 
toward Linton, is an opening in No. 6 Coal, and others also, are seen 
along the road. At Linton, we found the same bed on the land of Mr. 
Heslip, where it presents its usual features. At this place another coal- 
bed is found fifteen feet below No. 6, and has been worked to some extent, 
but it appears to be of little value. The shales in this neighborhood 
contain balls of iron ore of good quality, sufficient in quantity to inspire 
hopes of their being of value, but little dependence, however, can be 
placed upon them. ‘They are seen in the road a mile or more north-west 
from Linton, and specimens were preserved. Deposits of bog iron also 
are said to occur in the bottom of the creek. 
This locality is interesting from the discovery of bones of mastodons, 
found in the bank of the creek, and in the alluvial bottoms. One of 
these bones was found a few years ago in excavating the bank for the 
mill-dam at Linton. One large joint, supposed to be a cervical vertebra, 
with a cavity through it as large as a man’s arm, was taken out, and 
more bones were thought to be behind it. Search can be made for these 
whenever the water is drawn down at the dam, at Jacobsport. This 
backs the water up eight feet, which is all the rise for fourteen miles by 
the creek. Another discovery was made a mile below Linton, at the 
mouth of White Kyes Creek, of a large and sound tooth, which now be- 
longs to Mr. W. K. Johnson, of Coshocton. 
A third discovery was made forty-eight years ago, two and one-half 
miles above Linuwn, near Bridygeviiie, 11 Guernsey couuty, on tie tarm 
now owned by Mr. George Gay Mitchell. His father, at that time, in dig- 
ging a well on the terrace, fifty feet above the creek bottom, found at the 
depth of forty-two feet, some large bones in a bed of blue mud. Only two 
of these were taken out, one described by Mr. Mitchell to be a hip bone, 
and the other as ashin bone, weighing eight pounds. The well was then 
abandoned, and the rest of the skeléton is supposed to be still there. 
i append analyses of two varieties of the buff limestone overlying 
. Coal No. 7. 
SHU LY GTIONTNS) TaD RLS) ele i SEPP ee RR pe et Bhs ye 7.80 12.30 
AUN Mean COIPOM ee atolae aia eles Maram aleie ny cian ele aa levies Zia 3.20 12.60 
Canbonaterotslime nse sane a cc os Coca acle oben nc cenecustooetc: (87100 73.00 
Carbonatekotpmarnesiaicnec-oscises/stcnececeenonicaccrccecce 1.51 1.66 
99,51 99.56 
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