WELLS OF THE CUYAHOGA PREGLACIAL GORGE. 



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Another well was bored by Mr Duff in C. G. Bark will's brickyard, near the 

 corner of Mound and Seabrook streets, in Cleveland, two and three- fourths miles 

 north of the foregoing, at the height of 108 feet above the mean level of the lake. 

 It was abandoned at the depth of 323 feet without penetrating to the shale. 



Haifa mile west-southwest from the last a well near the entrance of Forest City 

 park, 112 feet above the mean lake level, went to a depth of 300 feet and stopped 

 without reaching to the bed rock. This and all the following wells are reported by 

 Mr Pierce from notes by Mr F. S. Gilbert, under whose direction they were bored. 



Along or near the course (approximately east to west) of Euclid avenue and 

 Detroit street through the city of Cleveland, the former east and the latter west of 

 the Cuyahoga river, on and hear the lower and principal Crittenden beach,* at 

 the height of 95 to 100 feet above the lake, twenty wells are reported, as arranged 

 in the following table, their order being from east to west, with their distances 

 from the Garfield monument and their respective depths to the bed rock (shale). 

 The Garfield monument, in the Lakeview cemetery, stands at the eastern city 

 boundary, on the margin of the eastern bluff of the broad Cuyahoga valley, over- 

 looking the city and lake, the altitude of the ground at the base of the monument 

 being 250 feet above the lake level. Only a thin deposit of the glacial drift, mostly 

 from 2 or 3 to 10 or 15 feet deep, lies on the crest of this bluff or escarpment along its 

 extent of five miles southwesterly, coinciding nearly with the eastern limits of the 

 city," from the Garfield monument to Xewburg. Farther back (eastward) from the 

 Cuyahoga valley this upland gradually rises, and has mainly a somewhat greater 

 thickness of drift, though quite incomparable with the great mass of drift which 

 was laid down in the river valley. 



Wells along or near Euclid avenue and Detroit street. 



Distances in miles Depths of 



from the drift in 



Garfield monument. feet. 



Adelbert street 0.9 12 



Fairmont street 11 12 



Republic street 1.3 15 



Amesbury avenue V 1.5 35 



Lincoln avenue 1.9 125 



East Madison avenue 2.1 346 



Giddings avenue 2.4 440 



Willson avenue 3.0 325 



Case avenue 3.3 320 



Dodge street 4.4 250 



Erie street (Hollenden hotel) 4.7 220 



Public square 5 <• 205 



On the Cuyahoga bottomland f 5.5 llo 



Division street near the water works f 6.3 108 



Waverly avenue 6.9 104 



Lake avenue and Detroit street 7 5 75 



Lake avenue and Edgevvater park 7.9 55 



Near Mueller avenue 8.4 40 



Near Parkview avenue 9.2 35 



Near Highland avenue, at the western city boundary 9.5 20 



On this section, nine and a half miles long, crossing the city of Cleveland, the 



* See the map of Cleveland accompanying my paper before cited (Bull Geol. Soe. Am., vol. vii). 

 t These two wells are on ground nearly 100 feet lower than the other wells of this list. 



II- Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 8, 1896 



