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deposits have often been found to be more than 100 feet in thickness. For example, 

 two wells were bored bj- Mr. E. Roberts northeast of Millport. In one the gravel 

 was penetrated to a depth of S-t feet without reaching the rock; in the other, it was 

 found to be 97 feet in thickness. On the farm of General Beatty two wells were 

 sunk for water within 100 yards of each other. One reached rock at about 50 feet; 

 the other, more westerly, is 100 feet deep, all drift. At the Charity School, as I 

 heard from the Hon. A. C. Wales, a well was sunk to a depth of 90 feet through 

 beds of sand and gravel without reaching rock. An interesting fact connected with 

 this well is that near the bottom logs of coniferous wood, apparentlj^ cedar, were 

 taken out. 



THE SHOULDER OF THE SCIOTI) LOBE, 



On tlie uplands west froin Canal Fulton, near Fox Lake, the drift has 

 a known thickness of 80 feet at H. Meibert's wells, and 60 to 80 feet in 

 several wells at farmhouses 1 to 2 miles west of Fox Lake. Southward the 

 uplands are more thinly coated, and man)- hills and lidges in the vicinity 

 of Fairview, Dalton, West Lebanon, and Mount Eaton afford numerous 

 outcrops of rock on their slopes and summits. The valleys are, however, 

 filled deeply with drift and contain morainic features. In passing from these 

 valleys eastward to the Tuscarawas Valley one finds considerable increase in 

 the amount of drift on the uplands. 



At Beach City, near the outer border of the moraine, but within its 

 limits, borings in Sugar Creek Valley strike rock at 90 to 110 feet, the drift 

 being mainly assorted material. A boring at Nathan Rose's farm, IJ miles 

 southeast of Beach City, penetrated 88 feet of drift, a portion of which is 

 cemented gravel. It is situated on the gravel plain which heads in the 

 moraine at Beach City. In the vicinity of Wilmot several coal shafts have 

 been sunk. Of these the di-ift in Putnam's shaft is 43 feet, in Wyandot's 

 71 feet, and in Hurrah's 56 feet. The thickness of drift on the hills and 

 ridges from Sugar Creek westward to Killbuck Creek probably averages 

 less than 25 feet, but in the lowlands it is so thick that ordinary wells 

 seldom reach its bottom. 



It was in one of these lowland tracts, in eastern Holmes County, that 

 the skeleton of a megalonyx was discovered, desci'ibed by Claypole.^ It 

 was found in a marsh beneath a bed of peat 6 feet in thickness and on a bed 

 of shell marl. Such marshes are not uncommon along this morainic belt, 

 but are a less prominent feature than in the interlobate tract. 



'Am. Geologist, February, 1891. 



