1865.] 



41 



[Lesley. 



from the sands, by making shallow canals one or two hundred 

 feet long, with an upright board and a reservoir at the lower 



Fig. 5. 



CROWS NEST ON PAINT C?.KY 



end, from which they obtained as much as two hundred bar- 

 rels per year, by stirring the sands with a pole. The same 



Fig. 6. 



method has been employed, with like success, as far down 

 Paint Creek as the cliifs continue high ; that is, to within six 

 or eight milea of Paintsville. 



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