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north-easterly to Scotch Ridge village, probably without receding more 

 than a quarter of a mile from the bank of the river. It continues in 

 about the same direction to section 23, Troy township, where it forms an 

 acute angle, and returns nearly due west to section 22, in Webster town- 

 ship, where it is diverted a little more southward to a point about two 

 miles east of Tontogany. It here turns still more south to section 8, 

 Liberty township, where it forms another acute angle, and runs to Port- 

 age village. 



The most northern exposure of the first-described area of Niagara is on 

 the county line, section 1, Freedom township. It is known as "Caler's 

 Ridge," and has the characters of the Guelph. It is a buff, vesicular stone, 

 in beds usually of four to eight inches, or rougher and more massive in 

 beds of a foot thick, nearly destitute of fossils, weathering a light buff, 

 and crumbling sometimes like chalk. It holds a deposit of lake sand. 

 The next point south within the county is in the southern part of sec- 

 tion 1, Montgomery township, where the ridge it forms is also capped 

 with sand. This sandy tract runs south-west, in the form of a soft, beach- 

 like ridge, on which a road is located, into section 29. It is probably on 

 the line of outcrop of Niagara. In the south-eastern part of the township 

 of Montgomery there is considerable wet and prairie land which is closely 

 underlain by the Niagara. The rock may be seen in frequent outcrops 

 in sections 25, 26, 35, and 36. This stony region extends also into San- 

 dusky county, and is locally known as Stony Barter. In some places the 

 Drift has been so washed away, leaving the bowlders, that piles of stones 

 in the fields from which they have been gathered have the frequency and 

 very much the appearance of hay-cocks_in a harvest-field. The fence 

 corners are also filled with them. About two-thirds of these loose pieces 

 are fragments of Niagara, probably from the underlying rock not far 

 away. The remainder are bowlders of northern origin. They are all 

 rounded and water-worn. In Perry township the Niagara forms a ridge 

 on the land of John Norris and of Justus Stearns, in S. W. J section 14. 

 It may also be seen in sections 25 and 24. On Judge Ash's land it is 

 opened for macadamizing roads, and shows the features and fossils of the 

 Guelph phase. 



In Bloom township there are several hundreds of acres of land in which 

 the Niagara is either quite bare or the soil is so thin that no attempt is 

 made to plow it. Mr. John Frank owns such a stony tract in S. E. J sec- 

 tion 31. East and north from this place, along the north side of the 

 Belmore Ridge, the Niagara may frequently be seen. Large fragments 

 are gathered from the fields, and piled, with northern bowlders, in the 

 streets. Different individuals burn lime from these loose pieces. On 



