598 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



the drift at a depth of about 65 feet. They are on the farms of Messrs. 

 Wilhams, Buzzard, and Courtwright. The wells penetrate till for about 60 

 feet and then a hard cemented clay for about 5 feet, at which point gas is 

 struck in a bed of sand. The gas when lighted is reported to have blazed 

 to a height of several feet. A well on Samuel Miller's farm, a mile west of 

 Chicago Junction, struck gas at a depth of 64 feet, but water came in soon 

 after the gas was struck, since which time gas has not been observed to 

 escape from the well. A short distance from this well, on the farm of Mr. 

 Franklin, a flowing well was obtained at the base of the drift at a depth of 

 83 feet; water rises 4 feet above the surface. The well is south of the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and on ground 10 feet or more below the 

 level of the track. 



At Attica station a well made by the railroad just mentioned struck 

 shale at 70 feet. The drift was mainly blue till. A gas-well boring in the 

 village of Attica has about 80 feet of drift. Between Attica and Chicago 

 Junction, along the line of the moraine, there are several wells 40 to 60 

 feet in depth, which obtain water from gravel beneath the till. A short 

 distance north of Attica limestone rises nearly to the surface and the drift 

 continues thin from there northward as far as the upper beach of Lake 

 Maumee at Bellevue. It is also thin west of Attica compared with its 

 thickness between that village and Chicago Junction, the general thickness 

 along the moraine being less than 50 feet, while on bordering plains it is 

 so thin that ravines 10 to 20 feet in depth reach the rock. 



At Melmore there is an exposure of till 40 feet in height in the bluff 

 of Honey Creek, and west from Melmore on Sandusky River there are 

 similar exposures of till. 



At Frenchtown, 2 miles west of Berwick, the drift is fully 90 feet thick, 

 and from there west to Alveda, along the line of the moraine, wells penetrate 

 60 to 80 feet of drift. A short distance south of this portion of the moraine, 

 near Spring-\alle, there are limestone ridges which rise above the level of the 

 crest of the moraine. These ridges extend south nearly to Carey, and thence 

 west to Vanlue. The diift is, as a rule, very thin on the plain between 

 the Defiance and Fort Wayne moraines from the Sandusky River westward 

 beyond the meridian of Findlay, its general thickness being but 10 to 20 

 feet. North of the moraine, also, it is much thinner than along the crest, 

 the general thickness from the Sandusky River westward to the meridian of 



