WAVERLY GROUP. 79 



establishment of Grant and Sons, I copied an accurate record from 

 the books of the firm, which reads as follows : 



Sand - 30 ft. I 



,, y drift. 

 Clay, yellow 20 " ) 



Sandstone, whitish 60 " 



Sandstone, red 15 " 



Sandstone, gray 5 " 



. Sandstone, red 40 " 



■ Shale, light-colored 10 " 



Shale, arenaceous red 30 " 



Shale, light-colored 5 " 



Shale, arenaceous red 88 " 



Shale, blue 35 " 



Sandstone, red 40 " 



Shale, hard, light-colored 60 " 



Sandstone, red 5 " 



Shale, white 15 " 



Sandstone, red 5 '* 



Shale, hard, light-colored 40 " 



Sandstone, red 5 " 



Shale, white 3 " 



Shale, arenaceous, light-colored 3 " 



First indications of brine. 



Shale, white, hard 164 " 



Sandstone, gray 195 " 



Abundant supply of strong brine. 



Shale, blue 10 " 



Total 905 ft. 



A few years later, another company bored a well at Tawas with 

 the same success, but I did not find out the particulars of the 

 boring. 



In the south part of the State, natural exposures of the Waverly 

 group are found in the counties of Jackson, Hillsdale, Branch, and 

 Calhoun. In the west part an outcrop is known at Brown's Station, 

 in Lake township, Berrien County, and other exposures are near 

 Holland, in the south part of Ottawa County. At Napoleon vil- 

 lage, in Jackson County, sandstones of the Waverly group have 

 been quarried as a building-stone since the first settlement of the 



