102 GEOLOaiGAL RELATIONS OF ALABAMA CLAYS. 



of white clay is reached, at many points below a vary- 

 ing thickness of overlying strata. Thus at Mr. Sam 

 Appling's a bed of fine white clay, 6 feet in thickness, 

 is cut in a well, and apparently the same bed is known 

 to underly the region about the depot. Mr. Appling's 

 is in Section 24, Township 15, Range 13 west. 



From Dr. Little's notes, I am able to give a number 

 of details of the occurrences of these clays. Seven 

 miles from Payette Court House, on the road to Mc- 

 Collum's Bridge, is a bed of itihree feet thickness of 

 very pure clay ,hard) and firm, which breaks up on ex- 

 posure into nodules, and the same bed shows on an- 

 other road to the west of this about one mile, south of 

 Wallace's Mill on Gilpin's creek, on W. D. Bagwell's 

 land. 



Dr. Eies' analysis of this clay is to be found in the 

 report under number 67, S. 



On the road to Pikeville, seven miles from Fayette 

 Court House, we have the following section : 



Section seven miles- north of Court House, Fayette Co. 



Eed loam of Lafayette 2 feet 



Gravel 10 feet 



Clay 3 feet 



Giavel 3 feet 



Between the depot and the Court House Dr. Little 

 has observed three feet of good white plastic clay in a 

 ravine on the roadside, and the same bed' is exposed 

 in the ravines at many points on the eastern edge of 

 the old town. Five miles west of the Court House on 

 the Vernon road, some ^tan-yard vats were dug years 

 ago, three feet into a blue clay. About half a mile 

 from the depot, Mr. Joe Lindsay reports fine white 

 clay, twelve feetl below the surface, which, he says, 

 was twenty feet thick. 



To the westward and southwestward of the town 



