Miscellaneous Notices, <^c. 157 



No. 32. Pyrites, imbedded in clay, from Pappaw creek, 

 Washington county ; tiie bed of the creek for a mile in length, 

 is full of pyrites. Numerous furnaces have been erected in 

 the side of the hill near the creek, in which ore of some kind 

 has been melted ; the beds of the furnaces are full of cinders. 

 Charcoal and stonecoal, have been used in the smelting. Sev- 

 eral wagon loads of scoriae are found in one furnace. Large 

 trees are growing over the beds of the furnaces, so that sev- 

 eral ages must have passed away since they were built. The 

 bottoms of the furnaces were lined with white clay, and the 

 sides built up with rough stone like a lime kiln. Several 

 mounds, one of stone, are found on the hills near. The 

 country is very hilly and broken on this stream. These fur- 

 naces have excited much speculation amongst the ignorant 

 and the curious; they were doubtless made by the Indians. 

 I have partially examined the pyrites, but can obtain nothing 

 but iron.* 



No. 33. Pyrite, in rock, from Union township, March run ; 

 bed from four to five feet in thickness. 



No. 34. Fibrous or radiated pyrites. It is found in an 

 extensive bed on the Ohio river, some distance below; it is 

 different from any other that I have seen. 



No. 35. Pyrites, found near coal beds in Marietta. 



No. 36. Slaty clay, saponaceous, ferruginous and glazed; 

 Marietta. 



No. 37. Limestone, compact and gray, common to this 

 vicinity — free from shells. 



No. 38. Micaceous sandstone ; Zanesville. 



No. 39. Jaspery iron ore, common on the beach of the 

 Muskingum, in bent and contorted pieces, as if moulded when 

 soft. 



No. 40. Bluish chalcedony, surmounted by crystalized 

 quartz; also, mamillary gray and blue chalcedony on horn- 

 stone; also, smoky quartz, from Flint ridge, fourteen miles 

 west of Zanesville. 



No. 41. A piece of tiie cellular hornstone, or buhr-stone. 

 So far as I can learn this ridge can be traced from fifty to 

 eighty miles, in a N. E. and S. W. direction from Coshoctou 

 county, through Perry, Hockhocking, and Jackson counties, 

 except where it is interrupted by water courses, probably to 

 the Ohio river. I have taken measures to learn more particu- 

 larly its extent and direction. The rock is evidently seconda- 



* It contains nothing but iron and sulphur. — Ed, 



