VAN" WERT COUNTY. 315 



The following points of elevation above Lake Erie are obtained from 

 the surveys and profile of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago 

 Railroad. It will be remembered that Lake Erie is 565 feet above the 

 ocean : 



Feet. 



Delphos 211 



Middlepoint 211 



Van Wert 213 



Convoy 218 



Dixon 225 



The following elevations were derived by aneroid barometer, making 

 connection with the above railroad elevations : 



Feet. 



Jennings's Prairie 256 



S. W. J, sec. 31, Union township, on the ridge 183 



Section 24, Tully, on the Van Wert ridge 178 



" " " bench 188 



Soil and Timber. — The soil is clayey, and is in need of artificial drainage. 

 The farms that are located on the Van Wert ridge have a greater market 

 valuation than any others in the county. The whole county was origin- 

 ally densely forest-covered, with the exception of the marshes, called 

 prairies, in Jennings, Willshire., Liberty, Harrison, and Tully townships. 



In the survey of the county the following species of trees were seen grow- 

 ing native : 



Fagus ferruginea — Beech Ait. 



Quercus alba — White Oak L. 



Acer saccharinum — Sugar Maple Wang. 



Platanus occidentalis— Sycamore L. 



Carya alba — Shag-bark Hickory Nutt. 



Fraxinus Americana — White Ash L. 



Cornus florida — Flowering Dogwood .' L. 



Ulmus Americana — American Elm (pi. Clayt., Willd) L. 



Zanthoxylum Americanum — Prickly Ash Mill. 



Quercus rubra — Eed Oak L. 



Fraxinus quadrangulata — Blue Ash Michx. 



Amelanchier Canadensis — June Berry Torr and Gray. 



Crataegus coccinea — Thorn L. 



Quercus Prinus — Swamp White Oak L. 



Gleditschia triacanthos — Honey Locust L. 



Carpinus Americana — Water Beech Mich. 



Juglans nigra — Black Walnut L. 



Ostrya Virginica — Ironwood Willd. 



Salix nigra — Black Willow Marsh. 



Morus rubra — Mulberry L. 



