382 General Description of Lake Erie. 



north coast, in Orford and Camden, there are brine springs. — 

 (Gourlaifs Reports, vol. i. p. 295.) These townships are on 

 the river Thames, and not far from Lake St. Clair. Salt springs 

 are also met with, accompanied by gypsum, in Norwich {Gourl. 

 Rep., V. i. p, 333), at the head of Otter Creek near Long Point, 

 and in Canboro, Haldimand, Dumfries, and Waterloo, on the 

 river Ouse, together with very large beds of granular gypsum 

 in Dumfries, which have been for some time quarried for agri- 

 cultural purposes.— (GowW. Rep. v. i., p. 382, 383, 386, 453.) 



On the south shore of this lake, Mr. Kilbourne, in his Ga 

 zetteer of Ohio, says ** that salt springs have been discovered 

 and worked to a very considerable extent on the waters of the 

 Killbuck in the county of Wayne^' — on Yellow Creek, in Jeffer- 

 son countyt — on Alum Creek, in Delaware county — on Mus- 

 kingham river, a few miles below Zanesville, and in various 

 other places," 



No steady inquiries have been made for indications of salt in 

 these remote countries, which are still principally wood and 

 morass. Those which chance has brought to light have never 

 been recorded. We need not, therefore, be surprised to find our 

 enumeration of localities so scanty. 



Bog iron ore is abundant in the wet grounds over the whole 

 north shore of Lake Erie, and probably on the south also. 

 The chief townships in which it is found, in the Canadian 

 territories, are Westminster, Dorchester, Norwich, Burford, 

 Middleton, Charlotteville, Woodhouse, Bayham, and Bertie. 

 — (^Gourlay^s Reports,.) 



Petroleum springs are reported by the Moravian missionary 

 Denke in Orford and Camden. — (^Gourl. R., v. i., p. 295.) 

 Springs of sulphuretted hydrogen are numerous everywhere. 



* Fifty-five to sixty miles from Sandusky, 

 [t Seventy to seventy-five miles from Lake Erie at Presqu'isle. 



