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LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP. 



The most central township in the county is Lafayette. The altitude 

 is not nearly as great as that of Montville, the next township on the 

 east. There are no exposures of rock of especial note, and the streams 

 are small. There is also a noticeable absence or scarcity of bowlders. 



Chippewa Lake is in this township. It is the only lake worthy of note 

 in the county. Its extreme length is a mile and a half, the breadth 

 being about half the length. 



MEDINA TOWNSHIP. 



Conglomerate may be seen in one locality in this township. It is in 

 the extreme northern part, just south of the diagonal road between 

 Weymouth and Brunswick, There is a fine glaciated surface on the rock 

 at that exposure. 



Cuyahoga shale is the rock whif>h predominates in this township, being 

 exposed in numerous places. At Weymouth it is for the most part a 

 gray sandy shale, with some softer beds. The lime and iron concretions 

 are here quite infrequent. Only the upper part of the formation is seen 

 in the township. This is highly fossiliferous in several localities, es- 

 pecially at Weymouth, Bagdad, and Medina. The most abundant species 

 -are Hemiproniles crenistria, Productdla Neioberryi, Grammytia Ilannibalensis, 

 Pleurotomaria textiligera, Sanguinolites aeolus, Edmondia tapesiformis, Spirifer 

 biplicatus, Schizodus Medinnensis, etc. 



A sandstone quarry at Weymouth affords a fine-grained, drab-colored 

 stone, valuable for monuments. A slab of this stone in the cemetery at 

 Hinckley has stood weathering over thirty years, and now looks in a 

 better condition than a majority of the marble slabs in the same ceme- 

 tery. This bed of stone is nearly two feet thick, but to be worked out a 

 large amount of superimposed soft shale has to be removed. 



The altitude of Medina village is about the same as that of the highest 

 land crossed by the Tuscarawas Railroad, the summit, according to the 

 old survey of the road, being nearly two miles south of Medina village, 

 in Lafayette. The altitude there is five hundred and seventy feet afcove 

 Lake Erie ; at Medina Station it is five hundred and seventeen feet ; at 

 Grafton Station (Lorain county), it is two hundred and thirty- seven feet; 

 at the Atlantic and Gieat Western Railroad crossing, south of Medina 

 county, it is three hundred and ninety-three and six-tenths feet. 



Passing north along the western border of Medina township we de- 

 scend upon successive flats quite regularly disposed. The off-look trom 

 some of the elevations is picturesque in the extreme, though not from 



