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the conglomerate overlying it. Such a knob is Maxey, a mile west of the vil- 

 lage of Defriese, in Hart county. There is also a knob on the north side of the 

 river near Rio, in the same county, which is capped by Kaskaskia. 



There is every evidence that the erosion interval antecedent to the deposition 

 of the conglomerate was greater here than in most other places. Though now 

 occupying a watershed, the remnants of the conglomerate seem to be parts of 

 a continuous belt of channel deposit which had a transverse course across what 

 is now a saddle in the Cincinnati anticline. In its channel deposits aspects it 

 resembles the conglomerate of the Rockcastle river and Roundstone Creek 

 drainage of the Eastern coal field, as described by M. R. Campbell in his "Re- 

 port on the geology of the London quadrangle." 



Underneath the conglomerate, on the boundary between Green and Larue 

 counties, there is an iron ore (limonite) which was formerly smelted in that 

 region. It has the same geological position and appearance as the Red River 

 iron ore of the Eastern field. 



The topography of the country is also very similar. Narrow comblike 

 ridges lead away from the main dividing ridge, which is here a part of "Mul- 

 drows hill." The culture features are also similar. To one traversing this 

 region along the ridge roads winding through forests of chestnut and oak "im- 

 ber, with here and there a one- or two-room log cabin, surrounded by a small 

 clearing, it is hard to divest oneself of the idea that he is in the Eastern Ken- 

 tucky coal field. With such similarity in natural surroundings one is not sur- 

 prised to learn that now and then a wild turkey is seen, that wildcats are rot 

 unknown, feuds not uncommon, and that the moonshiner is not entirely extinct. 



Eastward from this point, along the boundary between Taylor and Marion, 

 and across Casey county to the headwaters of Green river, in Lincoln county, 

 the remnants of the conglomerate along the crest of Muldrows hill become more 

 discontinuous and are represented by thinner and more disintegrated 

 Southward flowing streams in Taylor county have distributed this waste c 

 wide areas, and there are few places as far south as the latitude of Campbe 

 ville where a search for conglomerate pebbles in the soil will not reveal tb 

 presence. There is a rather remarkable belt of pebble waste along the divid.ng 

 ridge between Casey and Robinson creeks on the boundary between Casey and 

 Taylor and Adair and Taylor. The presence of these patches of waste is indi- 

 cated by dots on the map. Lack of accurate mapping of Casey makes it impos- 

 sible to indicate the position of these in that county with precision, but the 

 pebbles and masses of conglomerate are known to occur on the tops of all the 

 high knobs into which Muldrows hill breaks up as it approaches the head of 

 Green river. 



Beyond the Green river we know that the high lands are covered with this 

 waste. Linney refers to it in his "Report on Lincoln county," and the writer 

 can confirm this so far as the top of Kings mountain is concerned. This car- 

 ries us to the confines of Rockcastle county, where the outliers of the Eastern 

 Coal Measures set in, at first non-conglomeritic, but as the vicinity of Round- 

 stone creek and Rockcastle river is approached the lower measures become 

 more pebbly, and massive conglomerate cliffs are the conspicuous features of 

 the landscape. 



It seems, therefore, that the facts here presented warrant the inference that 

 a continuous belt of Lower Coal Measures formerly extended across southern 

 Kentucky from the Appalachian to the central fields. 



