776 THE ILLINOIS GLACIAL LOBE. 



At the village of Albion, which is situated on the divide between the 

 Bonpas and Little Wabash, at an altitude- about 150 feet above the streams, 

 rock outcrops in numerous places, and the general thickness of the drift 

 coating scarcely exceeds 5 feet. AVells are obtained at deoths of 40 or 50 

 feet, but the residents depend mainly upon cisterns. 



In the valley of Bonpas River, near Brown Station, a well reached a 

 depth of 61 feet without entering rock. It is reported to be mainly through 

 sand with few if any pebbles. 



At West Salem rock is usually entered in wells at 20 feet or less, and 

 water is obtained at 30 or 40 feet. 



At Mount Carmel the supply for the waterworks is obtained from a 

 well in the Wabash Valley, which obtains water at the surface of the rock 

 at a depth of 25 feet. Wells on the uplands in the city obtain water from 

 the rock at depths of 25 to 40 feet, those on the lowlands near the Wabash 

 obtain water from drift at a depth of 15 to 25 feet. West from Mount 

 Carmel, in the vicinity of Maud and Belmont stations, wells in some cases 

 obtain water in drift at 15 to 25 feet, but often enter the rock a few feet. 



At Friends ville rock is struck at 12 to 15 feet and wells obtain water 

 at about 30 feet. In a lowland tract 2 miles northeast of Friendsville, 

 known as Crawfish Flats, wells 40 feet in depth do not reach rock, and logs 

 are sometimes struck near the bottom. 



WHITE COUNTY. 

 GENERAL STATEMENT. 



White County is situated on the west border of the Wabash River, in 

 the southeast part of the State, immediately below Edwards County, and has 

 an area of 500 square miles, with Cai'mi as the county seat. The Little 

 Wabash River traverses the county from north to south nearly centrally, 

 and Skillett Fork, the main tributary of Little Wabash, leads southeast- 

 ward across the northwestern part of the county and enters the Little 

 Wabash just above the town of Carmi. In this county the streams are 

 bordered by broad lowlands, filled apparently to considerable depth with 

 glacial or alluvial deposits. The uplands are hilly and carry a very thin 

 coating of drift, rock usually being entered within 10 feet of the surface. 

 The entire county appears to have been covered by the ice sheet, for drift 

 is found in the vicinity of the Wabash River both to the east and south of 



