SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HANGING ROCK DISTRICT. 927 
gradually undermined and accumulated here. The ores shows the im- 
pressions of fern leaves and other vegetable tissues by which it is so 
widely characterized. A thickness of shale and fire-clay varying from 
two to ten feet underlies the great coal seam. 
The coal has a thickness of six feet and eleven inches. It has the 
usual partings and is, in every respect, an excellent representative of the 
great seam in its best estate. It is overlain by a few fect of shale which 
is in turn succeeded by a sandstone ledge about twenty feet in thickness. 
Coal No. Via, with a thickness of three feet 1s next met with, at a 
height of twenty-eight feet above the great seam. It is a coal of fair 
quality and would attract attention in many other fields. Its steadiness 
cannot be relied upon. 
_ The Lower Buff Limestone and its associated ore are found at an eleva- 
tion of forty three feet above Coal No. VI. They arestyled in the section 
the Moxahala lime and ore, but in the body of the report they have 
been connected in name with the coal seam above them, viz., the Norris 
Coal, and have been described as the Norris Lime and Ore. The latter 
name is to be preferred. There are twelve inches of limestone and six of 
ore in the openings shown. 
The very variable and inconstant seam known in this report as 
Coal V [5, is found at an elevation of forty-nine feet above the base. The 
seam is here but one foot thick. Three miles north-east, on the Lefever 
farm of W. W. Poston, Esq., the same seam has a thickness of over five 
feet. 
The Shawnee or Buff Limestone holds its usual place at sixty-five feet 
above the Nelsonville Coal. It is thirty inches thick in the section here 
shown, and twelve inches of the ore that accompanies or rep'aces the 
limestone is shown above it. The ore seems to have the usual character 
of the Straitsville seam. 
This is one of the few sections of this region that distinctly shows the 
Buchtel ore in its relations to the other elements of the section. I*ifteen 
inches cf ore of fair quality are shown ten feet above the limestone last 
named. 
Another ascent of ten feet brings us to Coal No. VII, or the Bayley’s 
Run Coal. There is a fine showing of this seam; four feet in thickness, in 
the section underreview. The coal has all the best characters of this seam 
in this vicinity. Like the two coals next below itein the section, it is 
much more bituminous and melting than the great seam. Whether it will 
prove a valuable coking coal remains to be demonstrated, the experiments 
thus far made not having complied with all the necessary conditions. 
Eighteen feet above Coal No. VII a stratified ore, two feet and one inch 
