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obtained a small flow of oil at about two hundred and seventy feet, 

 though not enough to pay for working. This was said to rise from a 

 " white sandstone," the rock both above and below being a " brown lime- 

 stone," without showing much variation. About two miles above 

 Perrysburg the layers are from two to eight inches in thickness, of an 

 even grain and drab color, and are quarried from tbe river, adjoining Mr. 

 Shawler's land. Mr. Michael Hayes owns a quarry a little below Mr. 

 Shawler's, in similar beds, and another about a mile above Perrysburg. 

 About a mile above Mr. Shawler's, Mr. Joseph Barnes has taken stone 

 from the bank of the Maumee for the construction of his residence. It 

 is a close-grained, blue-drab, crystalline stone, and in the structure 

 makes a very fine appearance. About three miles east of Perrysburg the 

 brecciated Waterlime appears at the surface over an area of several sec- 

 tions, causing a very rough and untillable tract, occupying several hun- 

 dred acres. Beginning at the N. W. \ section 2, Perrysburg township, it 

 spreads irregularly over sections 2, 3, 10, 11, and 15, reaching as far south 

 as sections 21 and 22, where it was formerly burned into lime on the land 

 of Henry Spilker. Throughout this area it has been more or less worked 

 by different persons for quicklime, of which it makes a superior quality. 

 At George McMulligan's quarr)-, on the Maumee and Western Reserve 

 Road (section 10), the beds are opened to the depth of about fourteen 

 feet. The brecciated structure occupies the uppermost two feet. Below 

 it about twelve feet of rather even-bedded, drab courses are seen, having 

 a thickness of two to six inches. These beds are the source of most of 

 the stone burned by Mr. McMulligan, who ships over ten thousand bar- 

 rels of lime per year. At this place bowlders are numerous. 



In Lake township the Waterlime appears in S.W.J section 33. A ridge 

 here crosses the road east and west. Matlock's mill, N. W. J section 22, 

 stands on a low ridge. Another ridge occurs in S. E. J section 28. 

 In Troy township the Waterlime was observed in the following places : 

 Section 5. The Empire House, on the Maumee and Western Reserve 

 Road, stands on the summit of a prominent ridge of Waterlime. The stone 

 is rough, massive, and of a dark color. This ridge may be traced almost 

 without interruption north-east across the northern portion of section 4. 

 The road encounters the rock again on the N. W. £ section 10. Between 

 sections 8 and 9 the road passes over a low ridge of Waterlime. In this 

 township Mr. Briggs, of the Geological Survey of 1838, reports outcrops 

 of rock on sections 11, 12, 25, and 14, on the authority of the county sur- 

 veyor. They are believed to be of the Waterlime, although they were 

 not seen in 1871. On Mr. Fred. Whitker's land, S. W. £ section 36, large 

 blocks of dark drab Waterlime are obtained from the surface of a low 



