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was done toward cutting a roadwiiy across the point. Fortunately that 

 work wad not carried far before it was abandoned, leaving this old relic 

 of a departed race but little defaced. 



MONTVILLE TOWNSHIP. 



■ Montville township, as its name implies, is high laud. The Tuscarawa 

 Valley Railroad was diverted to the west out of the township and out of 

 the direct route, because of the difficulty of grading over the high land 

 of Montville. 



The billowy character of the surface in some places was another 

 obstacle. 



The water divide in this township is a matter worthy of mention. 

 Much of the water falling upon the southern part of the township runs 

 southward to the Ohio River ; but all that falls in the northern part 

 finds its way eventually into the St. Lawrence. Harrisville and other 

 townships are tihus drained, both to the river and the lake. 



Canglomerate is the upper rock in the eastern part of the township of 

 Montville. It has been quarried to some extent on land owned by Oliver 

 Ingham and William Waters, half a mile west of the Sharon line, and 

 one mile south of the Medina line. The grains of the rock are about 

 the size of bird- shot, with quartz pebbles as large as blue birds' eggs 

 scattered^sparingly through the mass. Quarrying is also done in a ra- 

 vine one mile south of the Center school-house. 



Cuyahoga shale shows itself in the north-western part of the township. 

 Its sandstone layers are quarried at a place some forty rods south of the 

 Medina line, and east from the west line of Montville about one mile. 

 Mr. Samuel Bowman owns the quarry. The stone is unreliable in quali- 

 ty, as it often splits into thin sheets after continued weathering. Judge 

 Castle put this stone into foundation walls of business blocks in Medina, 

 and in the course of twenty years it had disintegrated so much that he 

 was obliged to have it replaced with new stone. 



In the south-east corner of the township, two miles and a half from 

 the Myers coal-bank in Wadsworth, is a ravine which gives a section of 

 perhaps one hundred feet. At the top is a very tough shale of a gray 

 color. The underlying sandstone is of varying fineness. 



A fine Conglomerate bed, ten inches thick, is seen about twelve feet 

 below the upper stratum of tough shale, with beds of sandstone above 

 and below. This bed of Conglomerate is made up almost wholly of peb- 

 bles, there being in it only sand enough to fill in the interstices between 

 the pebbles, which are generally as small as or smaller than hazelnuts. 



An ancient mound may be seen on Mr. John Archer's land, known as 



