56 Barrens.—White Sandstone Rock.— Tuscarawas County. 
tory, &c. The machinery is moved by water, furnished in part by 
the canal, and partly by the Tuscarawas, now become a large 
stream, while just below the summit it is only a small brook. The 
amount of wheat grown in this region, and sold at Massillon, is very 
great; from thence it passes to New York. Wool is also another 
staple article of produce. Large flocks of fine wooled sheep were 
brought here in the early settlement of the county, and have in- 
creased greatly. 
Fossil Bones.—In excavating a mill race through a swash; or a 
wet prairie, near Massillon, a year or two since, some very large 
bones and tusks of the mastodon were brought to light. 
Barrens.—Just below Massillon commences a series of extensive 
plains, spreading over a space ten or twelve miles in length from 
east to west, and five or six miles in width. These were covered 
with a thin growth of oak timber, and were denominated barrens ; 
but on cultivation they produce fine crops of wheat. ‘The 'Tuscar- 
awas has cut across these plains on their western end, and runs in a 
valley of denudation, sunk about thirty feet below the level of the 
general’surface of the plains. Some of the lower levels are wet, 
and filled with red cedar, black alder and the beautiful climbing mul- 
tiflora rose, (Rosa rubifolia.) The tamarack disappears as the 
country becomes more dry, and descends to the south. A few miles 
below Massillon we passed Navarre and Bethlehem, both of them 
flourishing villages on the borders of the canal. The progress of 
improvement is astonishingly great through all this part of Ohio. 
White Sandstone Rock.—A deposit of fine, white granular sand- 
stone, makes its appearance here near the surface of the hills. It 
is found in great purity, containing little else than silex, and is 
used in the manufacture of white glass at Zanesville. An equiva- 
lent rock is very prominent in that series of deposits, which make 
their appearance on the tops and sides of the Laurel and Sewell 
Mountains on the south and east borders of the great coal basin. 
The mineral characters of this sandstone are similar to those of 
the rock found in boring for salt water in the valley of the Muskin- 
gum at the depth of six and eight hundred feet. I have specimens 
from several of these borings, and from the places above named, 
which are so similar as to suggest the possibility of their being por- 
tions of an equivalent, if not the same, deposit. 
County.—About 9, A. M., the boat crossed the 
north line of Tuscarawas County. This is a rich and very ave 
