222 Ten Days in Ohio. 
Green Creek, which we crossed on a bridge about twenty yards in 
length. Its borders are skirted with many fine farms, and a small 
thriving village seated on the western side near the base of a large 
hill, assists much in beautifying the landscape. In some places, cliffs 
of sandstone form the banks and sides of the creek, and as we as- 
cend the hill, and athick deposit of sparry lime rock crops out by the 
side of the road more than one hundred feet above its bed. This 
stream, like most others in Ohio, took its name from an incident 
which happened on its borders. About the year 1794, an exploring, 
party was fitted out at Marietta, to examine the northern portion of 
“the Purchase,” and to search for salt springs. ‘They encamped, 
the first night, on this creek. ‘T'wo of the party, Col. Robert Oliver 
and Griffen Greene, Esq., strayed from their companions, and be- 
came so bewildered and lost that they could not reach the camp that 
night ; and as the Indians were still hostile, some apprehension was 
felt on their account. However, they reached the rest of the party 
the following morning in safety. From this circumstance, the creek 
was called “ Olive-Green.” It is a stream about sixty feet in width, 
and twenty miles in length, having on its head branches, some fine 
lands and rich settlements. In its waters are found the most rare 
and perfect bivalve shells of any in this region, especially those of the 
genus Anadonta. Its bottom is argillaceous, and the cuticle of the 
shells is uninjured by the abrasion of sand or gravel. 
The line between Washington and Morgan Counties is a little west 
of the bridge—Eight miles beyond Olive-Green creek,. the road 
passing over high lands but which are tolerably rich, level, and just’ 
coming into cultivation ; we then reach Meigs’s creek, so named by 
the same party after its discoverer, Col. R. J. Meigs, a soldier of the 
revolution, and one of the commanders under Montgomery in the 
invasion of Canada; the father of the late Return J. Meigs, Gov. of 
Ohio and Post Master General. It is favored by two principal branch- 
es, called the east and west forks, and which when united make a 
large beautiful creek, affording along its borders many fine scites for 
mills, and for extensive settlements. 
Coal. 
As we go down from the highlands on the east side of Meigs’s creek, 
a bed of stone coal comes to the surface about fifty feet above the 
bed of the creek. The owner of the land informed me that the 
same stratum appeared about eighty rods further up the stream, 
where it is five feet in thickness. He had used it for several win- 
