Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-06-03

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limestone there and at Paken.
b an IL fills the east fnoulds OF large orth.
ocerstites iu the Trontop limestone to such
an extent that about pin. has been poured
ou, of one. 1t is perhaps from these low
or siluriah fossil oorslline limrstones tha
the oil makes its way 60 the surface thro'
II lie overlyipg Lorraine shsles to form the
Cumberland oil spring near Albany, ae.
cotdipg to the Beck, through the Utica
slate on the Great NJ anitoulin islaud, and
through the red Medina shales at Albion
mills, near Hamilton, according to Mr.
Murray.-(Hun,.)
The next great limestone in the ascend.
ing series is the Niagra, and Eaton carly
made knowing the oozipg Of petroleum from
It's fossil casts. Hall describes il in Mon
roe county as a granular crystalline dolo-
mite, including small amipe Of bitumen
which give it a resinous iustre. Btu
men sometimes flows like tar from the
lime kiln. The corniferous limestone,
next above the Niagr a, has the cells Of
its fossil corals filed with polr oleum, tn Q
remains Of the gala.i onous coral ami
NAL which Inhabited them. Mr.. Murray
drew attention TO this fact in 1914, and
cited the Gravelly bay quarries in Vain
feet, Western Canada,as examples Re.
port Of ls46.)
The oil springs of Enniskillen, as we'll
as the lake Of solid bi,umcn iu the same
township, hall au acre in extent and two
feet thick, no doubl have their deep-se
sources not in the black shales of the re-.
gion, but in the corniie rous limestone un.
derneath. Those black shales belong to
the base Of the Portage and Chemug
group. The wells sunk in them soon
strike the argillaccous shales and lime.
stones Of the Hamilton group, and 60
through them toward the coniferous lime.
stone specimens Of which yielded to Hunts
analysis from 7.4to 1873 per ocu.. Of btu
men, fusible and readily soluble in ben.
Zole.
In tho blaekish Marcellus sbalss, at the
base Of the Hamilton group; are found
septaria or nadular oouoretions contain-
ing petroleum. The same phenomenon
recHrs at the top of the Hamilton group.
Still higher up, the Portage and Ghenug
sandstone (formasion viii are often btu.
minous to the smell, a.d contain petro.
leum in cavities, or hardened into solid
seams. A oalcareous sand rock in the
Chatausua cou nty contains more than
per Get. Of bituminous matter. These are
the rocks around the famous oil springs
OF the Seneca Indians. 1t il only necess.
sry 10 accnd the series of these devonian
sanstones to their upper part among the
rocks of the CasskilI group, or JUS, beneath
them, to fnd oneself in the oil regions Of
northern Pennsylvania aud Ohio, desorib.
cd by Dr.. Newberry and others, and sufi. /.
oieuIy treated Of in the foregoing pages.
There only remains to be nuticcd tn at
anomalous deposit Of the Albert coal 10
New Brunswick, made famous by long Ii
sigation and the discussion of geolopis.s,
described by Professor Dawson in his
Acadian Geology, and called by Dr..
etheriIl,of Philadelphia, Mclan asphalt.
-(Trans. Amea. Phil. Soo., July IS,
1852
Its position has been misinterpreted by
several observers, who have reported it a
volcanic injection Of bitumen into assure
Of the earth, many feet in with, by the
force Of which large pieces Of the wall rock
have been torn off aud carried forward in
the mass 1t seems, however, pretty we'll
made out, that il was originally horizon.
tai bed or lake OF petroleum, harneued
and covered up by sand and clay deposits
Of carbonferous age, and afterwards up.
turned bent over and fractured so as to as
sume its present posture. 1t is not prop.
crly q coal bed, therefore, but a mass OF
hardened coil oil, which can be, aud, in
fact, has been, mined like coal bed, and
the product used wholly for making gas.
DR.. Whetherill's analysis gives: Coke,
44 35; volatile matter; 55 55; ash, O.lO.
Specimens Of Cuban asphalt analyxed At
the same time gave Coke, 80 90 vola.,
tile matter, 81 so; ash, O'4O; or, sub
sraoting the a'h and uniting the oxygen
aud nitrogen Carbon, s8 1873; hydrogen
s.97l oxygen and hydrogen 4.9O6-C6s
H42 0 N. Like Cuban and Egyptian
asphalt, this Albertine Gas It's comm only
callsd) is highly electrified by friction,
which coal is not.
SH- We have been at some naios Ia os.