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ravine tributary to it at the same place. It is here porous and some- 

 what fossiliferous, in beds of about three inches. It has been wrought 

 to a limited extent on the land of Mrs. Ann Ramsey for quicklime and 

 common foundations. 



The Waterlime. — This limestone underlies the remainder of the county ; 

 but affords but few known exposures. It is burned for quicklime at 

 Streughn, by James Lilly, and was formerly also quarried at the same 

 place by Samuel Kessler. The stone here is the same as that seen in 

 Union township, where it is also quarried and calcined on an extensive 

 scale by B. Bohnert & Co. It is of a light color, with a little tendency to 

 a drab, porous and fossiliferous. It makes a beautiful white lime, the 

 average weight of which is said by the owners to be sixty pounds per 

 bushel. It burns easily and cheaply, and sells for twenty- five cents per 

 bushel. At Streughn it rises to within four feet of the surface, and is 

 overlain by hard-pan Drift. Glacier marks immediately below the Drift 

 run north, 15° E., by pocket compass. The section at Streughn is as 

 follows : 



Section in the WatekliMe at Streughn. 



No. 1. Hard-pan '. 4 ft. 



" 2. "Gray stone," i. e., spotted, drab, porous and compact; the 

 porous parts of a lighter color and show no bituminous mat- 

 ter, glistening and crystalline ; not difficult to quarry ; beds 

 two to four inches 5 " 



" 3. "Black stone," i. e., bituminous; but the bituminous matter 

 is evenly disseminated through the whole, so as to color it 

 uniformly; slightly porous; without visible fossils; harsh to 

 the touch; heavier and in heavier beds than No. 2; seen... 2 " 



Total 7 " 



Both these members make an excellent white lime. The stone has 

 much the aspect of the Frsmont stone, in Sandusky county, but it is not 

 so hard nor so close-grained. The fossils seen are principally a small 

 shell resembling Leperditia alta. But there are also one or two species of 

 brachiopods, commonly seen in this formation ; yet the lithological char- 

 acters of No. 2 are not those common to the Waterlime. It is with some 

 difficulty distinguished from the Niagara. This outcrop occurs in a very 

 fiat and monotonous tract of country, but the upward swell in the rock 

 surface produces a slight elevation in the surface of the Drift. The ex- 

 posure is not due to erosion, as that of a stream, but is in the open plains, 

 and is owing to the unusual thinness of the Drift. 



The "Waterlime is seen again in N. E. J section 14, Spencer, Allen 

 county, where Mr. S. Marshall owns a quarry. This is located in the bed 



