Following the courses of the three principal streams 

 which vinite at Newark to form the Licking river we 

 find that they meander in broad and open valleys which 

 are bounded by gently sloping hills rising from one 

 hundred and fifty to two hundred feet above the flood 

 plains, except where the streams swing close to one 

 side of the valleys where they often cut into the hill side 

 and produce a bold and rocky clifit'. The Licking from 

 Newark eastw^ard flows close to a high ridge on its 

 south bank, while the north line of hills bounding the 

 valley is about two miles aw^ay. 



Some eight miles below Newark the ridge on the 

 south bank turns tow^ard the north-east in the direction 

 of Hanover but here the Licking river passes into the side 

 of this ridge in a narrow gorge some three hundred 

 feet wide and with perpendicular walls about one 

 hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high with the 

 hills rising still above this, at very steep slopes, sorne 

 two hundred feet more. At the lower end of this gorge, 

 which is about one and a half miles long, there are three 

 distinct and separate channels cut out of the solid 

 Logan conglomerate, all open, with perpendicular walls, 

 resembling two large sigmoids of diflerent curvatures 

 overlaid, and the present channel as a straight line 

 drawn across the middle of the figure. Below this 

 formation the river runs in a narrow but not precipi- 

 tous valley to the Muskingum, bearing south-east. 

 All of the streams of the County are running in drift- 

 filled channels as is shown by deep wells, except the 

 Licking in its exit from the County in this rock bound 

 gorge. 



The ridge of hills which turned to the north-east 

 where the river entered it, continues in that direction 

 past Hanover to Dresden in Coshocton County and 

 forms the southern boundary of a broad and open 

 valley about one mile wide, which is filled in at Hanover 

 by avast drift deposit, making an immense dam. behind 

 which is a large tract of swamp land. This dam rises 



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