104 Notices of Fossil Wood in Ohio. 
Art. XII.—Notices of Fossil Wood in Ohio; in a letter from 
Rev. Sayrs Gazuay, dated Cincinnati, April 30, 1833. 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
Iy a former communication respecting wood found in digging a 
well in Palmyra, Ohio, it was stated, that such facts are so common, 
in the vicinity, as to excite no surprise. As this last remark seemed 
to excite your surprise, I have collected the following nt which I 
have the pleasure of furnishing you. 
‘ About two years ago, a second instance of a similar kind fell under 
my observation. While the stage stopped at Palmyra, I examined 
the limb of a tree most resembling elm, taken up the preceding week 
in digging a well, at the depth of twenty-six feet. It was nine feet 
long and five inches in diameter. ‘Three pieces of it are now in my 
possession? It has lost half of its diameter in drying. 
Having no further acquaintance with the fossils of Bie I fur- 
nish you with a few of the many facts of this kind that might be col- 
lected in Springfield, which lies twelve miles south-west of the for- 
mer place, and fifteen miles north of Cincinnati; it is elevated one 
hundred feet above the highest river-bottoms, and is seven miles east 
of the Great Miami. 
Mr. Anthony Hills, innkeeper, in the lower part of the village of 
Springfield, found wood, in digging a well, at the various ie of 
sixteen, eighteen and twenty feet. 
Dr. Jeremiah Braden, in the aytumn of 1831, found near that 
place, several small pieces of wood at the depth of thirty feet; the 
largest of which was a little less than a man’s arm; but he found no 
more, although he sunk his well to the depth of sixty-five feet. 
John Miller, one mile north of Springfield, on ground about fifteen 
feet lower, found wood at the depth of twenty feet. Between this 
place and Springfield, the ground is forty feet lower, than at those 
places. Near Mr. Miller’s, and where the surface is about twenty 
feet lower, Archibald Martin found wood, sticks and leaves, twenty 
feet from the surface. His well is forty feet deep. Mr. Miller, 
uponanother farm of his, found also a part of a tree, five inches in 
diameter, which, from the knots being numerous upon it, he judged 
to be pine or spruce. ‘This was three miles east of Springfield. 
Michael Long, a mile southwest of the last mentioned place, dug 
two wells, and found wood in each, the trees lying quite across the 
