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the west they are carried ofif by Sandy Creek and the Conotton, which 

 empty into the Tuscarawas. Springs are numerous, and yield an ample 

 supply of good water for domestic purposes. 



The larger portion of the land is under cultivation, and little remains 

 in wood. The more common trees are white and red oak, pig-nut and 

 shell-bark hickory, black walnut, elm, tulip-tree, locust, and sugar-maple, 

 with some beeches and wild cherry, and very few of the cone-bearing 

 trees. The number of species and their character show that, though 

 thin, the soil is capable of supporting a vigorous growth. 



GEOLOGICAL STBUCTUKE. 



Diligent examination was made to determine the presence or absence 

 of true drift, but as none was found, excepting a few doubtful specimens 

 in the north-east, it is pr.obable that the boundary line of drift influence 

 lies to the north or north-east of the county. The bottom lands of the 

 Conotton and of Sandy Creek being made up of sand, show the mode of 

 deposition very prettily, exhibiting lines of stratification and the posi- 

 tion of eddies. In the Sandy Creek " bottom," not far from Waynesburg, 

 Mr. Daniel Wagner has found two teeth of Mastodon, of large size and 

 nearly perfect, weighing together fifteen pounds. 



While making a series of borings for coal, near the village of Magnolia, 

 Mr. John Young discovered that the course of Sandy Creek has been 

 changed, for in one boring he passed through ninety feet of gravel and 

 other transported material without reaching any consolidated rock. How 

 much deeper the deposit extends is not known, as, unfortunately, the 

 boring was stopped at that depth. Judging, however, from what has 

 been ascertained in Tuscarawas county respecting the Tuscarawas River, 

 it is probable that Sandy Creek at one time flowed at a level not less than 

 one hundred feet below that of its present bed, and that the valley was 

 gradually filled up by transported material to conform to the changing 

 relative level. 



The consolidated rocks of the county belong exclusively to the Barren 

 and Lower Coal Groups. It is possible that the Pittsburgh coal crosses the 

 line from Harrison county into London township, but it was not ob- 

 served. Lying, as Carroll county does, on the border of the Barren Group, 

 which probably extended originally to but a short distance further north- 

 west, the relations between the strata of this group as here displayed are 

 somewhat obscure, the intervals varying in the most perplexing manner. 

 For this reason no county section can be given which would be of any 

 practical value. 



Near Perrysville, in Perry township, and at Lwo localities in the south- 



