332 A, Winchell on Drift in Michigan. 
have imparted a highly calcareous element to the soil, even 
along the arenaceous belts. The percolation of meteoric waters, 
in turn, has given rise, in great eet to calcareous springs, 
and deposits of marl, tufa and trave 
In the southwestern Se of the eanitionia:$ in the counties of 
Berrien, Van Bure Ottawa, similar phenomena are again 
observed. The eanarcoss element of the soil is even more 
Some saan of these eee may be more Sei 
cit On the S.W. + S.E. 4 sec. 13, Woodstock, 
County, (221),' in the side of  Ppowpets Hill,” Festa pes 
in tabular masses six by twenty feet, and seven feet thick. An 
old lime-kiln stands near. Similar limestone occurs on the S.E. 
S.W.4¢ sec. 12, Woodstock (228) and S.W.4S.E.} see. 1. 
from the latter reste several hundred bushels of lime have 
been burned. sec. 8 of the same township, the Marshall 
ona is beached at the depth of 4 to 12 feet from the sur — 
fa sec. £ the sandstone is known to be over 76 feet thick} 
penetrated 44 feet. On sec. 30 it has been penetrated 60 
On the N.W. 1 N.W. 3 sec. 26, Liberty, Fackeott piace tt 8), 
masses of limestone are so abundant that a kiln has 
structed and several hundred bushels of lime manufactured. rie 
the time of my visit, about 35 cords of wood were piled by the 
iln, a Reet considerable confidence in the resources of the — 
ents of Marshall sandstone, with its fossils, are 
tm oo. with the fragments of limestone. Sim ilar 
of li may be n again on N.W.% .E. } se0. 
36, 26, Hanover, (290 (239), and on the S.W. 1 N.E. 1 same aie (240). 
eral wagon of fragments have been removed from the 
iat: over the Principal mass at the latter place. On the SE. 
Ma me section, a common well reached the Mar 
este =~ tthe dep of 85 feet, and was excavated 40 feet in 
on N.E.! NE. } sec. 33, same township, — 
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