HANCOCK COUNTY. 361 



In Allen township, N. E. J section 8, on land of Mr. Joshua Workman, 

 the Niagara furnishes heavy stone for bridge abutments, some of the beds 

 being a foot or more in thickness, yet somewhat vesicular. 



The exposures of the Waterlime are very frequent in Hancock county. 

 Not only is it frequently bare in the bed of the Blanchard, where it flows 

 over that formation, but the small creeks which enter that stream from 

 the south are very often running immediately on the rock. It also causes 

 occasional mounds or ridges above the general level. These rise and fall 

 again to the surrounding level with a gentle inclination, and are, no 

 doubt, dependent on the undulations of the strata. They are only found 

 in the southern part of the county, at least only south of the Van Wert 

 Eidge. 



In Delaware township the following exposures were noted : 



N. W. \ section 2. In the bed of the Blanchard Mr. Solomon Shafer 

 takes out thin blue flags. Some beds are only a quarter of an inch. It 

 has every feature of the Tymochtee slate of Wyandot county. 



N. W. \ section 35. Mr. Solomon Ripley has a slight opening in thin- 

 bedded, fine-grained drab stone. 



N. J of section 1. Mr. Henry Greer has a quarry, or a slight excavation, 

 in thicker drab beds. Further south, along Potato Creek, more irregular, 

 fine-grained, but blue and compact, layers may be seen. Mr. Greer's 

 quarry is situated on the line of geographical limits of the formation, 

 and affords a very slight exposure of the Niagara. 



Mr. John A. Rose has a quarry in the Tymochtee slate, in the southern 

 part of section 14, as follows, from above : 



No. 1. Fissile, slaty beds, about one-half inch thick ; dark drab, 



with bituminous partings 6 in. 



" 2. Bluish-drab or ashen; fine-grained and compact; beds 

 three to four inches. The interior is a bright blue, 

 which on weathering, even in the quarry, becomes 

 ashen 1ft. 6 " 



Mr. Josiah Fail has a quarry in similar beds on section 11. 



N. W. J section 23. At the junction of a little creek with the Blanch- 

 ard the beds appear one to two inches thick, and very perceptibly 

 tinged with blue. Thicker beds are slightly vesicular and of a drab 

 color. 



N. W. J section 4. A limestone ridge which covers portions of four 

 contiguous sections, cornering near the quarry, is wrought by Abdiel 

 Gobrecht, mainly for lime-burning. This ridge is a little over a mile in 

 length north and south, about half a mile in width east and west, and 

 rises perhaps thirty feet. The beds, where uncovered, which is on the 



