102 GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF ALABAMA CLAYS. 



of white clay is reached at many points below a vary- 

 ing thickness of overlying strata. Thus at Mr. Sam 

 Appling's a bed of fine white clay, 6 feet in thickness, 

 is cut in a well, and apparently the same bed is known 

 ;to underly the region about: the depot. Mr. Appling's 

 is in Section 24, Township 15, Range 13 west. 



Prom Dr. Little's notes, I am able to give a number 

 of details of the occurrences of these clays. Seven 

 miles from Fayette Court House, on the road to Mc- 

 Collum's Bridge, is a bed of three feet thickness of 

 very pure clay .hard and firm, which breaks up on ex- 

 posure into nodules, and the same bed shows on an- 

 other road to the west of this about one mile, south of 

 Wallace's Mill on Gilpin's creek, on W. D. Bagwell's 

 land. 



Dr. Ries' analysis of this clay is to be found in the 

 report under number 67, S. 



On the road to Pikeville, seven miles from Fayette 

 Court House, we have the following section : 



Section seven miles north of Court House, Fayette Co. 



Red loam of Lafayette 2 feet 



Gravel 10 feet 



Clay 3 feet 



Gravel 3 feet 



Between the depot and the Court House Dr. Little 

 has observed three feet of good white plastic clay in a 

 ravine on the roadside, and the same bed is exposed 

 in the ravines at many points on the eastern edge of 

 the old town. Five miles west of the Court House on 

 the Vernon road, some tan-yard vats were dug years 

 ago, three feet into a blue clay. About half a mile 

 from t'he depot, Mr. Joe Lindsay reports fine white 

 clay, twelve feeti below the surface, which, he says, 

 was twenty feet thick. 



To the westward and southwestward of the town 



