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its mural faces in Delaware county present an apparent massive struc- 

 ture, with crumbling surfaces, the pieces falling out being an inch or 

 two in diameter. Its thickness is about twenty-eight feet. 



No. 6 has a thickness of about thirty feet. Its upper portion is thin- 

 bedded, and fit only for quicklime. Its lower portion is in heavy beds 

 of twelve or fifteen inches, and is in some places a prized building stone. 

 It is of uniform grain and composition, being non-fossiliferous, and is 

 susceptible of being cut or sawn into blocks of any desired dimensions. 

 It often passes for a sandstone, and has a light cream color when weath- 

 ered. 



No. 7 is perhaps ten feet thick, but only six inches have been seen in 

 Paulding county. It is sometimes conglomeratic. Several large bowlders 

 derived from it were seen in the bed of the Maumee, near Emerald. 



No. 8 is from six to ten feet in thickness. The quarry at Charloe is 

 in No. 8. 



No. 9 is in wavy, or at least in distorted, bedding, a common feature 

 of that phase of the Waterlime. 



The Drift. — This deposit throughout the county was laid down by the 

 agency of the glacier, but the effect of standing water, which received 

 the crude detritus from the ice, is seen in the occasional superficial, hori- 

 zontal lamination of the upper six to ten feet. The bowlders contained 

 in it are, almost without exception, marked by the well-known glacier 

 scratches. It contains but little gravel. Sand in Paulding county is 

 very scarce. That used at the Paulding furnace is from the Maumee 

 bottoms, section 11, Crane township, land of H. B. Ferguson. Generally 

 the Drift of the county is very clayey and impervious to water. The 

 beds of all streams are in it, occasionally touching the rock, never exca- 

 vated in it. Its average thickness is about 45 feet. The flood-plain of 

 the Maumee rises about 12 feet above the stage of low water. The mate- 

 rial of this plain is a sandy loam, containing a great many land shells. 

 The face of the bank shows them in all parts, and thedeposit has out- 

 wardly every aspect of the "Bluff formation" of the Mississippi River. 

 It is difficult to resist the conviction that it has the same origin, its 

 height there, as here, indicating simply the level at which the river has 

 been able to transport the materials. The Drift-bank proper is generally 

 at some distance from the immediate channel, and rises from 30 to 40 

 feet still higher. 



Wells and Springs. — In Carryall township are a number of artesian 

 wells. They prevail most along the North Creek, through the northern 

 tier of sections. Many wells not artesian find water in a bed of sand 

 and gravel from 10 to 18 feet below the surface, this sometimes affecting 



