CHAPTER LXXXl. 



REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OP WAYNE COUNTY. 



BY M. C. READ. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



In its topography Wayne county has in part the characteristics of the 

 coal territory of the State, and in part that of the table land illustrated 

 in the description of Ashland, Richland, and other adjoining counties. 

 A deep pre-glacial channel enters the county from the north, in the 

 western part of Milton township, and extends northward, expanding, as 

 it approaches Orr villa, into a broad swamp, the site of an ancient lake. 

 From thence it passes eastward into Stark county, a branch from Milton 

 township trending directly east in the valley now occupied by Chippe- 

 way Creek, and another northward through Canaan and Wayne town- 

 ships, passing east of Wooster, and striking the line of the Cleveland, 

 Mt. Vernon and Columbus Railroad near Apple Creek Another chan- 

 nel from the north enters the county near the east line of Congress town- 

 ship, and constitutes the valley through which the Killbuck flows through 

 the whole extent of the county. A branch bearing north-westward from 

 Wooster is followed substantially by the railroad, until it unites with an 

 ancient Channel from Ashland and from Richland, in tlie valley of the 

 Mohican. These valleys in places expand into broad, alluvial plains, 

 and in others are occupied by marshes, plainly indicating the sites of 

 shallow lakes. 



In the central and western parts of the county the surface rises in gen- 

 tly rolling hills between these old channels, in most places covered 

 deeply with clay drift having the same succession and arrangement of 

 material as that described in the reports of the counties to the west. 



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