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Near “Carey’s Academy,” about seven miles north of Cincin- 
nati, elevated four hundred or five hundred feet above the lake, 
and nine hundred or one thousand above the ocean, are three 
wells that show nearly the same section. They are distant from 
each other half a mile. The one near Mr. W. W. Carey, has the 
following section furnished by him. 
Feet. Inches. 
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1. Surface clay and loam, - - - 
Yellow sand, - - - - 
Blue marly clay, 
Leaves, wood and sticks, 
Vegetable mould, - 
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Three miles north of New Burlington, and about two hundred 
feet lower than the last situation, a bed of Jogs was passed at 
thirty feet from the surface. Another at forty feet, had leaves 
and logs under the blue clay. Another gave the following 
section :— 
Feet. 
1. Surface loam, - ~~ - jes >I 1 
2. Yellow clay, - - ee Tel arcs 
3. Sand, - - “ ‘ i . 2 
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5. Leaves and sticks. 
In Athens county, Ohio, at the depth of forty feet, Dr. Hil- 
dreth says, logs were found in the blue hard pan or clay. Ata 
place cailed Mercer, at the source of the Little Miami River, tim- 
ber was found forty feet deep in the blue clay, and a dirt bed at 
fifty feet. In 1838, Col. John Madina of Chillicothe, showed me 
@ piece of wood, taken as he said from a well on the hills east of 
the Scioto, about three hundred feet above the lake, at the depth 
of thirty feet. It was a foot long, one and a half inches through, 
hard, brittle and resinous, of a dark color, and overlaid by clay. 
On the land of Mr. Simpson in Scioto county, Ohio, about ten 
miles east of the Scioto River, near the north line of the county, 
