106 Notices of Fossil Wood in Ohio. 
being in view from the spot. No stream of water large enough to 
drive a mill, is nearer to the place than the Great = is five 
miles to the west. 
William Huston, one mile farther west than Skillman’ s, on ground 
about twenty five feet lower, dug a well in 1830, in which he found 
wood almost continually, after he had descended eighteen feet, and 
he continued to find it to the depth of forty-five feet. At the depth 
of forty feet, he found a tree twelve inches in diameter crossing the 
well. He is of opinion that he found wood in his well sublicigm to 
fill the body of a cart. He gave mea piece of it, five inches in di- 
ameter, and a foot long, which is now in my possession. 
Samuel Newel, more than a mile west of Springfield, in digging a 
well, came upon the top of a tree lying almost horizontally, at the 
depth of twenty four feet, at which depth he relinquished digging, on 
account of the sides of the well caving in, and commenced again 
about two rods from the other place, on ground about two feet high- 
er, the ground gently sloping for‘some distance. In this second well 
he came upon the same tree, at the depth of twenty feet, uncover- 
ing the trunk near the root, the trunk there being broken, as is not 
uncommon with fallen trees. 
Mr. Compton, in the summer of 1832, bel wood in digging a 
well at the depth of nineteen feet. Some specimens are in my pos- 
session. This place is more than a mile south of Springfield, and a 
mile east of Mr. Long’s, before mentioned. 
Other similar facts are in my knowledge, collected i in the vicinity, 
which I forbear to detail, on account of their similarity. 
Eighteen miles north-east of Springfield, on the east side of the 
Little Miami, and four miles from this river, Thomas Dickey, Esq. 
found wood, in digging a well last summer, at the depth of sixteen 
feet. ‘Two pieces of these I procured of him last week ; one was 
taken from the top of a stump near the place, and the other lying 
on the ground. In explanation of their being thus left in the weather 
during the winter, and so in danger of being lost, he remarked that 
such facts were common in his neighborhood. 
It is obvious from the facts respecting Mr. Newel’s wells, that the 
ground about Springfield had a more uneven surface, before these 
trees were covered, than at present; for the surface, which now 
slopes two feet in two rods, then sloped six feet in the same distance, 
and even more if the branches of the tree bore the top from the 
ground, higher than the roots, which is common, when trees have 
‘yamose tops. 
