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fall increases slightly, and soon after entering Section 26, T. 10 N., R. 3 W.. 
the stream has cut down to bed rock. The road leading east and west 
along the north side of Section 26 is practically the margin of Flatwoods 
in this vicinity. On this road a shallow ford crosses the creek on the 
700-foot contour line, over a solid rock floor. From the source of the 
stream to this ford, a distance of about five miles, the stream has a fall 
of about tifty feet. It enters White River about two miles below, at an 
elevation of 540 feet above sea level. Thus the last two miles of the 
stream have a fall of 160 feet. Practically the entire last two miles of 
the course is over a solid rock bed. The region presents some of the most 
rugged and beautiful scenery in the State. The stream courses down a 
veritable gorge which is but little wider than the stream itself. Many 
cascades occur, and about a mile below the ford a fall of about 12 feet 
occurs. In low water the stream cascades over this fall, but when the 
water is high it rushes over with a roar that can be heard for some dis- 
tance. Above the falls the floor of the gorge is swept clean of debris, but 
below, the gorge is wider, and in many places is chocked with the rock 
debris that has been carried from above or has fallen from the almost 
vertical walls on either side. 
Just east of the source of McCormicks Creek is the source of a small 
branch which leads northeast through an opening in the rim of the basin 
and empties into Jacks Defeat Creek. This stream drains but little of 
Flatwoods, as indicated by the map. Its source is about the same height 
as the McCormicks Creek source, and its mouth, one and one-third miles 
northeast, comes out at about 670 feet above sea level, thus giving it a 
fall of eighty feet. 
Another break in the rim of the basin occurs in Section 30, T. 10 N., 
R. 2. W., about two miles southwest of Stinesville. This opening is nar- 
row and its surface is below the 760-foot contour jine. To the north of 
the narrow opening is a wide flat plain similar to the Flatwoods, hay- 
ing a silt surface of the same nature. This flat is drained into Big Creek. 
The narrow opening itself is practically bed-rock at the surface. Sinks 
occur in it. A small portion of Flatwoods is drained into a deep sink 
near the northwest part of this section. The water that goes into this 
sink undoubtedly passes under the narrow opening and comes out into 
3ig Creek below, as several springs occur in the upper part of this creek. 
Just to the west of this narrow opening is a high hill capped with sand- 
stone, which is at least sixty feet higher than the opening. The silt line 
