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SYMMES CREEK. 



Immediately west of the lower end of the Raccoon drainage basin is 

 the basin of Symmes Creek. The stream heads a short distance sovitheast 

 of Jackson and has a general southward course to the Ohio, which it enters 

 opposite the city of Huntington, W. Va. An inspection of this drainage 

 system suggests a northward discharge for the entire system except a sec- 

 tion a few miles in length in the lower course. The writer was able to 

 trace out a series of valleys connecting the two headwater forks in south- 

 eastern Jackson County with the South Fork of Salt Creek. Grrass Fork 

 crosses an old divide within a mile north of the Jackson-Gallia county line. 

 Its old line of discharge appears to have been in the reverse of the present 

 course to the line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and 

 thence westward past Clay, Vaughn, and Camba into Salt Creek. The 

 region now drained by Black Fork appears to have discharged in part along 

 the line of the railway just named from Gallia Furnace northward. The 

 headwater portion of the creek may have discharged past Oak Hill, joining 

 the other branch and Grass Fork at the swamp east of Clay. The present 

 stream appears to have crossed an old divide in the vicinity of the county 

 line a short distance east of Gallia Furnace. 



Tight reports the discovery of an old divide south of Aid about 15 

 miles from the mouth of the creek. The portion of the drainage basin 

 between this divide and the one near Gallia Furnace may have found an 

 eastward discharge into Raccoon Creek, passing near the village of Patriot; 

 the divide there between Symmes Creek and Raccoon Creek is exception- 

 ally low. 



LITTLE SCIOTO RIVER. 



This small stream drains the southern end of the abandoned part of 

 the old Kanawha channel in southwestern Jackson, southeastern Pike, and 

 eastern Scioto counties, Ohio. It is singularly out of harmony with the old 

 channel, as may be seen by reference to the sketch map (fig. 3, p. 101.) The 

 east or Brushy Fork heads on the northeast border of the old channel about 

 3 miles north of Glade and takes a southward course, entering the channel 

 at Glade and following it for about 6 miles. The stream then leaves 

 the old channel near the line of Jackson and Scioto counties, and utilizes 

 the channel of a little tributary. It is joined by Flat Fork, which leads 

 eastward from California along the old channel, but which turns south 



