l 62 THE PREGLACIAL DRAINAGE OF OHIO. 



the southwest corner of Hanover Tp, Ashland county, touch- 

 ing the northeast corner of Knox county, and crosses the Mo- 

 hican four miles south of its junction with the Clear Fork 

 and near its union with the Lake Fork. From here it runs north- 

 east into Knox Tp., Holmes county, and crossing an enig- 

 matical north and south divide that turns Black Creek to the 

 east, it continues in a northeast direction across the township 

 and enters Monroe Tp. at its northwest corner, then bending 

 southeast it traverses the township nearly midway between Paint 

 Valley and Welcome, and has for its crest the Blue Stone, of 

 which the Millersburgh court house is built, and the red sand- 

 stone known as Killbuck red sand-stone. From here, after 

 crossing the southwest corner of Hardy Tp. it enters the north 

 corner of Killbuck Tp. and crossing the Killbuck River 4 miles 

 below Millersburg, locates a narrowing in the Killbuck channel, 

 supposed to be a col, just where that stream turns to the south- 

 west to be joined to the Black Creek. From here this divide 

 enters in an easterly direction the northwest corner of Mechanic 

 Tp. and crosses the township in zigzags until it approaches the 

 northeast corner where it turns abruptly northeast to Santillo 

 P. O., then east through a stone-quarry region and on to a 

 point two miles south of Berlin, where it again turns northeast 

 and passes north of New Carlisle, where a new turn directs it 

 to the limestone ridge above Weinsburgh. It here leaves the 

 county of Holmes in worm-fence progression, possibly to Dun- 

 dee, or in some other way to assimilate with the confining walls 

 of the mysterious Tuscarawas. 



I have not had the privilege of tracing it, nor determining 

 the location of the col in the Big Sugar Creek, whence the waters 

 were carried in preglacial times from the Newmans Creek channel 

 north of Orrville. 



But this I have determined, that a spur of the divide passes 

 from near Weinsburgh by Mt. Eaton to Kidron, inclosing a 

 territory that sent its waters to Kidron, and thence to the Apple 

 Creek channel. Along this old water way, Artesian wells 

 are secured from white. sand at from 75 to 80 feet. This valley 

 is followed by the new Camp Railroad from Kidron to Honey- 

 town. It is no easy matter to determine the exact crest of the 



