Miscellaneous Notices, &-c. 157 
No, 32. Pyrites, imbedded in clay, from Pappaw creek, 
Washington county ; the bed of the creek for a mile in length, 
is full of pyrites. Numerous furnaces have been erected in 
the side of the hill near the creek, in which ore of some kind 
has been melted; the beds of the furnaces are full of cinders. 
bottoms of the furnaces were lined with white ei and the 
sides built up with rough stone like a lime kiln. Several 
mounds, one of stone, are found on the hills near. The 
country is very hilly and broken on this stream. These fur- 
naces have excited much speculation amongst the ignorant 
and the curious; they were doubtless. made by the Indians. 
I have partially examined the pyrites, but can obtain nothing 
but age 
3. Pyrite, in rock, from Union township, March run ; 
bed livin fou to five feet in thickness. 
No ous or radiated pyrites. It is found in an 
extensive bed on the Ohio river, some distance hetaw: it is 
different from any other er hav 
No. 35. Pyrites, found n perely badeks in Marietta. 
No. 36. Slaty clay, deinen ferruginous and cab 
Marietta 
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0. 37. a compact and gray, common to this 
vicinity—free from shells. - 
No. 38. Miciaegs sandstone ; Zanesville. 
o. 39. Jaspery iron ore, common on the beach of the 
M askmgate,’ in bent and contorted pieces, as if moulded when 
soft. 
No. 40. Bluish chalcedony, surmounted by crystalized 
quartz; also, mamillary gray and blue chalcedony on horn- 
stone; also, smoky quartz, from Flint ridge, fourteen miles 
west of Zanesville. 
No. 41. A piece of the cellular hornstone, or buhr-stone. 
So far as I-can learn this ridge can be traced from fifty to 
eighty miles, in a N. E. and S. W. direction from Coshoetou 
county, through Perry, Houkhotkisies and Jackson counties, 
except where it is interrupt water courses, probably to 
the Ohio river. I have taken measures to learn more particu- 
larly its extent and direction. The rock is evidently seconda- 
* It contains nothing but iron and sulphur.—Ed. 
