64 THE PREGLACIAL DRAINAGE OF OHIO. 



Ripley township and all its waters were directed by the dip 

 of the rock to the Paint Valley channel, which started near 

 Nashville and enters the Killbuck channel near Holmesville. 



The next and principal tributary is the great Killbuck chan- 

 nel, in which the waters are now reversed. We located the col 

 in this river 4 miles south of Millersburgh, but later observations 

 reveal many facts pointing out Oxford as the site of the col, 

 and that the Black Creek gorge sent its waters to Wooster. 

 In driving from Nashville to Napoleon by a route west of the 

 common, T found a range of hills starting from the east and 

 west divide in Knox township that had not been considered in 

 the first investigation, and although this discovery does not do 

 away with the significance of the line of high hills there noted 

 yet it does constrain me to believe that this divide was sur- 

 rounded by a range of higher hills, and that the waters of Black 

 Creek were included by them. This line continues almost par- 

 allel with the Mohican River to old Fort Fizzle, west of Napo- 

 leon, and from here is directed to the "Summit Ridge" in Rich- 

 land township, and only separated from it by a strait so narrow 

 that it seemed like a col. As the summit ridge is continuous to 

 Oxford and forms the dividing ridge between Wolf Creek and 

 Black Creek ; and also because there is a line of high hills on 

 the south side of Killbuck Valley that connects with, and is 

 continuous with the line of hills in Killbuck township where I 

 located the col, I fear that the former location of the col only 

 noted the crossing of a line of hills, and that the true col was 

 at Oxford. But leaving this for future investigation, when I 

 will note the observations by barometer, I return to the sixth 

 channel, a small one that comes in, between coal hills, two miles 

 south of Millersburg from a fissure directed to Berlin. The 

 eighth comes in from Salt Creek township, between Holmes- 

 ville and the Holmes county infirmary. It is now occupied 

 in part by Martins Creek. A drilled well here shows 196 feet to 

 rock. The eighth in order is probably of more importance to 

 the people of Wayne county than all the others combined, for 

 it furnishes a series of flowing wells of the purest water. It 

 drained a large portion of Salt Creek and Paint Creek town- 

 ships in both Wayne and Holmes counties. I have only traced 



