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the channel a short distance into Holmes county, where it is 

 now represented by Dry Run, passing down a fissure between 

 coal hills southwest of the south branch of Salt Creek, and 

 entering the Big Salt Creek valley near the tile factory below 

 Fredericksburgh; here it is joined by a small channel from the 

 limestone hills of Wayne county. At this point is located the 

 col in the Big Salt Creek, and from here the stream goes tearing 

 over a rocky bed and between rock hills to Holmesville five miles 

 distant. From this col the old channel passes almost due north 

 to old Edinburgh, where it is joined by the preglacial channel 

 coming in from Kidron by Apple Creek. It then proceeds in 

 a northwest direction along the valley of the Apple Creek to 

 Honeytown where it enters the main channel to the lake by 

 Orrville. 



This valley is one-half mile wide and is filled with drift from 

 Honeytown to Fredericksburgh and Kidron, and flowing wells 

 are secured on every farm in its course, except near Honey- 

 town where the dam in the great channel is complete. The ob- 

 structing glacial hills rise to 200 feet above the plane and no rock 

 is found below the flood plane at 185 feet, and Apple Creek is 

 turned, like the Killbuck at Burbank, almost at right angles 

 back to Wooster. In all the flowing wells water is found on blue 

 boulder clay and in white sand. Fredericksburgh wells are 

 about 100 feet deep, Apple Creek 120 and rock is reached at 

 Apple Creek at 186 feet. 



This completes the description of the channels tributary 

 to the central channel, as far as the one represented by the Big 

 Sugar Creek. And here I must call your attention to a feature in 

 the location of these channels which will be better understood 

 by referring to the map accompanying this paper, viz., all the 

 channels that enter the axial channel from the coal measures 

 enter it through fissures or gorges between coal hills ; and this 

 fact must help us in determining the original course of the chan- 

 nels now occupied by Sugar Creek, Newmans Creek, and Chip- 

 pewa Creek ; the waters now in them trend out, but we think this 

 evidence shows that in preglacial times they flowed in. 



First, as to Sugar Creek, in which the col is not located, it 

 will be observed that it now passes up a ravine, between coal 



