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[[image - pencil drawing of strata of coal seam]]
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Vaccinium sp., arborvitae,  a fern? and some others unknown to me, laurel? & shagberry. &c.
The coal is nowhere more than 18 inches thick in the clear - it contains a good deal of sulphur & iron & splits very easily into thin sheets. The roof stone is unstable. All the strata dip to the westward from 5° to 20 [[underlined]] ° [[/underlined]] There are not many
folds but a few waves  The conglomerate appears to have been a leach formation while the level was changing as many of the upper lie unconformably on each other
Above all are marine tertiary which I have not

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Species names checked as well as possible.