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mention has been made before. Typical rounded drift hills also 

 occur. Three miles west of the Agency building, on the west side 

 of the Big Soldier, the Hmestone rocks are very prominent. Here 

 there is ver\- little soil of any kind. On the ridges the rock forms 

 almost a perfect floor. The blocks of limestone in this floorlike 

 surface are somewhat rounded, but this has come undoubtedly 

 from weathering and not glacial action. Three quartzite bowlders 

 were found on top of one of these ridges. One of the bowlders is 

 situated where there was no soil at all, on a limestone floor. These 

 ridges are 1250 feet above sea level. The}' are higher than the 

 land to the south and east. 



3. Atchison. 



The region of Atchison is interesting for its dissimilarity from 

 Wathena, White Cloud and Troy in the adjoining county on tl.e 

 north. In these places only one bowlder was found lying on the 

 ground. Near Atchison they are not infrequent. The brown flints 

 which had been observed in other regions were very abundant in 

 Atchison. A layer of these above the limestone can be seen in 

 various places in the city. The following is a section exposed yi 

 mile north of the city on the B. & M. R. R. 



1. Layer of yellow clay with pebbles and fragments of lime- 

 stone, 5 feet. 



2. Irregular layer of limestone bowlders from yn foot to 1^3 

 feet in diameter. Greenstone pebbles also are present. This is 

 very irregular in outline, and in thickness 2 to 3^ feet. 



3. Yellow clay and brown sand, 5 feet. 



4. Layer of brown flint pebbles, so numerous that the layer 

 seems to be wholly composed of them. Occassional limestone and 

 greenstone pebbles found, 4 feet. 



5. Disintegrated limestone, 2 feet. 



6. Limestone. 



Whole section 25 feet in depth. 



Inquiries were usually made for wood found m wells. Two and 

 a half miles north of Holton wood was found in a well at a depth of 

 40 feet. Wood was found in a well near Effingham at a depth of 

 90 feet, and at Atchison on the Midland College campus at a depth 

 of 50 feet. Prof. Knerr of Midland College has examined the spec- 

 imen taken from the college well, and says that its cells show that 

 it is coniferous. No section was found that indicated in any way 

 a layer of forest material. 



