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beds lined with fragments, some of which will measure at least a 
cubic yard in volume. In no place does the stratum seem to be solid 
throughout its entire depth, but is in layers varying from less than 
an inch to fully 2 feet in thickness. The blocks in the streams are 
usually so weathered or checked with seams as to be unfit for the 
manufacture of implements; but much of it is as compact and as 
readily worked as that mined from a portion protected by soil. 
Should it be found desirable to secure blocks from the parent ledge, 
this could easily be done by breaking them off where a stream has 
uncovered it, digging into the hill if necessary. All traces of such 
work would be obliterated in a few years. 
Tf any actual quarrying was ever done it was only along the 
extreme eastern outcrop, where the flint forms the cap rock; nothing 
of the kind could be found nor was it reported. Owing to the great 
abundance of suitable material to be had in the creek beds or at the 
falls where the flint crosses the streams there would be little need 
for such quarrying. 
Near the top of the mountain 2 miles north of Ansted is a spring 
known as Indian Spring, flowing off of shale underlying the flint. A 
level bench or terrace at a little lower level and to one side of the 
spring is said to be covered with flint chips, but the dense vegeta- 
tion effectually conceals them. 
On top of the mountain above Powellsville, 5 miles from Mount 
Carbon, near a large “ bear wallow,” is a little knoll on which chips 
are found. 
At the mouth of Kellys Creek, 20 miles above Charleston, and of 
Hughes Creek, 4 miles farther up, are evidences of much flint manu- 
facturing. 
Between the mouth of Kellys Creek and its head where the ledge 
crosses—about 9 miles—there are thousands of wagonloads of flint 
blocks in sight; and in places where the bottom is 300 or 400 feet 
wide the ground is filled with such blocks as deep as any road or 
stream has cut. The same is also the case along other creeks, the 
flint resisting erosion and gradually settling to lower levels as the 
strata above and below are disintegrated and carried away. 
Practically all of this Kanawha flint is coarse-grained and objects 
made from it are mostly rough and rather thick as compared with 
the other dimensions. Thin or delicate implements can not be 
chipped from it, though it is well adapted for hatchets, digging 
tools, and other purposes not requiring keen or smooth edges. 
Furnt 1x Carrer Country, Ky. 
Carter is the southern of three counties which form the northeast 
corner of Kentucky, between the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers. 
