10 Frocccdmgs of the Ohio State Academy of Science. 



The region surrounding Buckeye Lake includes the southern 

 townships of Etna, Union, Harrison in Licking County, and the 

 northern townships of Violet, Liberty and Walnut in Fairfield 

 County, and Thorn Township in Perry County, and is covered 

 by both the Tllinoian and Wisconsin drift sheets to a depth vary- 

 ing from a few feet to 453 feet, as shown by the records of gas 

 wells in the area. 



PHYSIOGRAPHIC FEATURES. 



The region to the southwest and west of Buckeye Lake is a 

 till plain devoid of large boulders and characterized by clay con- 

 taining many small sharp irregular rock fragments ; the sur- 

 face is rolling, broken by low gently sloping hills and the shallow 

 open valleys of young streams, many of the smaller of which are 

 wet weather streams only. The drainage belongs to two systems, 

 the Licking-Muskingum and the Scioto River systems. The 

 water shed is a low table land, 3-5 miles wide, surmounted by 

 low hills, obliquely crossing the boundary between Licking and 

 Fairfield counties and sloping gradually to the plaili on which lies 

 Buckeye Lake. 



The margin of the table land is dissected by numerous 

 small streams. Those flowing towards the north, northeast and 

 east are tributaries of the South Fork of the Licking River, 

 while those flowing towards the southwest, south and southeast 

 join Sycamore and Little Walnut creeks of the Scioto River 

 system. The surface of the region is marked by many swamps, 

 of which the largest are the Bloody Run or Pigeon Roost swamp, 

 two miles southeast of Kirkersville where the South Fork of the 

 Licking changes its course from almost due east to south, and 

 the "Big Swamp" the present site of Buckeye Lake. All of these 

 swamps except Buckeye Lake, have been drained, the smallest 

 are now mere depressions in meadows or cultivated fields and 

 the largest. Bloody Run swamp, is almost wholly under cultiva- 

 tion. It covers an area of 400 acres of which 250 is muck 

 land. To the east of the road Mr. Brown raises celery and other 

 vegetables, and to the west the Livingston Seed Company have 



