10 frocccdiiifjs of the Ohio State Acadcu\y of Science. 



Tlic regifjn surrounding liuckcNe Lake includes the soutliern 

 townships of Etna. Union, Harrison in Licking County, and the 

 northern townships of X'iolet. Liberty and Walnut in Fairfield 

 County, and Thorn Township in Perry County, and is covered 

 by b(jth the lllinoian and Wisconsin drift sheets to a flepth vary- 

 ing froni a few feet to 453 feet, as sIkjwu by the records of gas 

 wells in the area. 



PHY.SIO(JRAPIIIC FKATURES. 



The region to the southwest and west of Buckeye Lake is a 

 till jjlain devoid of large boulders and characterized l)y clay con- 

 taining many small sharp irregular rock fragments ; the sur- 

 face is rolling, broken by low gently sloping hills and the shallow 

 open valleys of young streams, many of the smaller of which are 

 w'et weather streams only. The drainage belongs to two systems, 

 the Licking-Muskingum and the Scioto River systems. The 

 water shed is a low table land, 3-5 miles wide, surmounted by 

 low hills, obliquely crossing the boundary between Licking and 

 Fairfield counties and sloping gradually to the plain on which lies 

 Buckeye Lake. 



The margin of the table land is dissected by numerous 

 small streams. Those flowing towards the north, northeast and 

 east are tributaries of the South Fork of the Licking River, 

 while those flowing towards the southwest, south and southeast 

 join Sycamore and Little Walnut creeks of the Scioto River 

 system. The surface of the region is marked by many swam])s, 

 of which the largest are the liloody Run or Pigeon Roost sw-amp, 

 two miles southeast of Kirkersville wdiere the South Fork of the 

 Licking changes its course from almost due east to south, and 

 the "Big Swamp" the present site of Buckeye Lake. All of these 

 swamps except Buckeye Lake, have been drained, the smallest 

 are now mere depressions in meadows or cultivated fields and 

 the largest. Bloody Run swamp, is almost wdiolly under cultiva- 

 tion. It covers an area of 400 acres of which 250 is muck 

 land. To the east of the road Mr. Brown raises celery and other 

 vegetables, and to the west the Livingston Seed Company have 



