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Wyandot County, and styled the Tymochtee slate, although the characters of 

 the latter, especially its thin beds, are not entirely wanting in Putnam 

 county. Some of the principal quarries within the county are in the 

 bed of Reilly Creek, among which the following may be mentioned : 



S. W. \ section 30, Blanchard township ; quarry of James Wade. 



N. W. £ section 6, Reilly township ; quarry of F. N. Climer. 



N. E. £' section 36, Ottawa township; quarry of Judge J. Y. Sackett, 

 affording some thick, even-bedded stone, the blocks of which are some- 

 times ten to sixteen inches and four feet long. 



Section 6, Reilly township ; quarry of William Blodgett. 



N. E. \ section 7, Reilly township ; quarry of Michael Bridenbauch. 

 This quarry affords stone resembling that seen in the Scioto River a 

 couple of miles below Middletown, in Marion county, being blotched and 

 variously mottled with blue and drab, in beds ten to twelve inches thick. 



Section 8, Reilly township ; land of George W. Alkire. 



N. W. | section 18, Reilly township ; quarry on the land of M. S. Rice. 



Good stone from the Waterlime is also obtained at Pendleton. 



In the bed of Cranberry Creek are the following quarries : 



Section 23, Pleasant township; the quarry of James McComb supplies 

 the village of Columbus Grove. 



N. W. J section 26, Pleasant township ; quarry of Joseph McComb. 



S. E. \ section 23, Pleasant township ; quarry of J. Postleweight. 



In the bed of Hog Creek the Waterlime is very often exposed, and is 

 usually slightly worked for common stone for foundations. On the 

 N. W. J section 16, township of Union, land of A. C. Syfert, it shows 

 very sudden and remarkable changes of dip. The beds are twelve to 

 sixteen inches in thickness, and have been apparently upheaved super- 

 ficially and fractured, the opened crack being eighteen inches across, 

 running north and south. This opening of the rock is not confined to 

 those parts of the river valley which have been entirely denuded to the 

 rock, but one such upheaval was seen several rods from the immediate 

 channel. At this place the disturbance of the overlying Drift has ad- 

 mitted a small creek in time of freshet, which so washed away the clay 

 as to reveal the condition of the beds. A singular phenomenon, prob- 

 ably ascribable to the same cause, was witnessed a few years ago on the 

 land of William Turner, S. E. \ section 32, in Pleasant township. It is 

 generally known as "the earthquake" in the immediate neighborhood, 

 and is said to have occurred during a thunder storm. Across the bottom 

 land of Sugar Creek a singular and sudden upheaval of the surface took 

 place, creating a bank running in a north-west and south-east direction, 

 crossing the creek and entering or abutting on the Drift banks on either 



