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 ditching for the drainage of the Medary Swamp. At one point, forty 



rods south-east of the center of section 6, large bones, supposed to have 

 belonged to that animal, were found in a sandy loam along the north 

 side of the Leipsic Ridge. A large oak tree is said to have stood over 

 the spot. In section 8 the remains exhumed consisted of fragments of a 

 tusk about five inches in diameter, two teeth, and bones from the poste- 

 rior extremities. They had the appearance of having been broken be- 

 fore being deposited in their present positions. The large bone belong- 

 ing to the .posterior extremities was removed twenty-three feet from the 

 fragments of the tusk, and near it were no other remains. On its under 

 side the natural surface had been fractured, and the cellular tissue ex- 

 posed in large spots. "With the exception of the teeth, nothing could be 

 preserved entire. The whole lay about three feet below the surface. 

 Throughout this swamp, so far as revealed by ditching, there is a deposit 

 of six inches of black muck, underlain by two feet of nearly black clay, 

 probably so stained by vegetable decomposition, and an unknown thick- 

 ness of hard-pan, filled with gravel, on the original surface of which are 

 occasional large bowlders. Large bones are also said to have been found 

 _ near the surface of the Drift on Samuel Purkey's land, section 7, town- 

 ship of Ottawa. 



MATEEIAL RESOURCES. 



The Waterlime in Putnam county is more than usually adapted to 

 purposes of general building. While it is without that massive and 

 rough condition so often seen in Wood and Ottawa counties, it still has 

 not acquired the thin, laminated condition of the Tymochtee slate of Wy- 

 andot county. Hence the quarries of the county generally supply the 

 demand for all stone, even the most massive, although the facilities of 

 transportation by the Miami Canal are so ample that the " Dayton stone" 

 of Prof. Orton, from the Niagara, is found in use in the western part of 

 the county, as well as stone from the Lower Corniferous quarries at Char- 

 loe, in Paulding county. The surface of the Drift in Putnam county 

 affords in many places a superior clay for tiling, brick, and red pottery. 

 That used at Ottawa by Mr. Samuel Row and Mr. D. D. Mullet may be 

 cited in illustration. It is almost entirely without stones and sand. The 

 manufactured article is very firm and dense. A peculiarity was noticed 

 at Mr. Row's tile-yard. Wherever they are touched by the hand, or 

 bruised by contact with each other, or with the machinery, before burn- 

 ing, the pieces turn, in burning, to a light ash, or cream color, and come 

 out of the kiln variously marked. Corners which had been trimmed 

 with a knife are uniformly of this color, and very hard, almost glazed, the 

 general color of the piece being brick red. Crevices within the clay con- 



