52 THE PREGLACIAL DRAINAGE OF OHIO. 



40 feet. These drillings were all on Sec. 6, Franklin township, 

 Wayne county. 



It would seem that between Shreve and Wooster, where the 

 widening channel from ]\Iillersburgh enters the axial channel, the 

 rock floor has been deepened as well as wadened and a preglacial 

 lake, tripod in shape, formed. 



The spread of the rugged inclosing hills, the great flood 

 plane known to the pioneers as the Killbuck swamps, and which 

 to them became a lake at each "spring flood", all go to prove 

 this. The basin would be 10 miles long from Wooster to Shreve 

 and 8 toward Millersburgh, with a width of from li to 3 miles; 

 over this plane the Killbuck Creek then crept from hill to hill, 

 and back again like the doublings of a snake. The Indian 

 chief, Killbuck, made himself noted by killing a deer with an 

 arrow from his bow that, on its errand of death, crossed the creek 

 three times. 



One drilling in the center of this lake, i-| miles south of 

 Wooster, and 5 miles from the cross section wells, with a well 

 head of 330 feet, shows 185 feet to rock and 480 feet to Berea 

 sand (which here has a thickness of 27 feet); this makes the rock 

 bed of the channel only 145 feet above Lake Erie, and to this 

 must all other levels conform, unless the lake character of a 

 basin with a deeper bottom than the main channel can be proved. 

 This brings me to the city of Wooster, and from here to Orrville 

 I have a rough road to travel, but the preglacial water came 

 here, and there was but one way for it to go out, and I must 

 find that way under the high gravel hills between here and 

 Orrville. On the south of Wooster is Madison Hill, on which 

 is located the Ohio Experiment Station, with its quarry of elegant 

 Coal Measure sandstone; and if miles north of it across Apple 

 Creek valley, on a terrace of which is located South and East 

 Wooster, Wooster University is planted on a hill of naked 

 Waverly shale 522 feet above Lake Erie. Madison Hill has 

 about the same elevation, and between them, but near 200 feet 

 below them, sparkles the crystal water of Apple Creek. No 

 drillings have been made in the center of the channel to the 

 rock floor — so its elevation cannot be proven here — but many 

 drillings have been made for water, which is found in white sand 



